"Common sense suggests that a one-to-one ratio is woefully inadequate, " Rashkin writes in his book.
Positive sentiment around retailers themselves also maintained its overall three to one ratio.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a five-to-one ratio, and more than 90.0% of the trading by volume was to the downside.
"I would be pleased with a two-to-one ratio, " said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
Assuming this trade was a ratio spread, the trader might have sold 58, 000 October 4 puts, thus creating a two-to-one ratio with the purchased 29, 000 October 5 puts.
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And then it assumes the banks would need to preserve a core tier one ratio of either 7% or 8% on these stressed scenarios by the end of 2012.
One hundred and six (106) patients were randomly allocated in a one-to-one ratio to undergo renal denervation with previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment or to maintain previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment alone (control group) at 24 participating centers.
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They have been headed in that direction for several years--in 2006, digital sets will outsell analog sets at a ratio by a two-to-one ratio, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates--but the new law will accelerate that trend.
When Forbes Global spoke in late 1999 with Thomas White, a money manager in Chicago, the Nasdaq stood at 4000 and many analysts were busy inventing new valuation ratios to justify sky-high share prices (" One ratio does not fit all" Dec. 27, 1999).
Frequently, such corrections recover to a Fibonacci ratio of the prior move, and 50% is one such ratio.
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The minimum tier one capital ratio needed to pass the test is 5%.
JPMorgan Chase ( JPM - news - people ), for example, finished 2009 with a tier one capital ratio of 11.1%, a figure it boasted about in a press release.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
Analysts believe the lender could have a core tier one capital ratio of close to 20 per cent initially, falling to 9 per cent -- the level required by the troika agreement -- in three years' time once losses have been incurred and recognised.
It has a one-to-one nurse-patient ratio in critical care and one-to-four in the rest.
The aggregate tier one common capital ratio - assets held in reserve as a buffer against financial troubles - would fall from an actual 11.1% in the third quarter of 2012 to 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the hypothetical stress scenario.
The list of metropolises where foreclosures are most common include familiar names like Miami, where one in six homes with a mortgage is on its way to foreclosure, and Detroit, where the ratio is one in 23.
In France, for children under the age of four, the ratio is one to eight.
However, consider two identical Index ETFs one with an expense ratio of 0.25% while the other is 0.50%.
Malaysia's debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio is one of the highest in the region at 53%.
The Forbes feature drew participants from every continent (except Antarctica), and we saw a two-thirds male to one-third female ratio.
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On average, classes have the ratio of one facilitator per fifteen students.
More than 10, 000 members of the Pakistan military secure the area around Kotkai, officials said, a ratio of one soldier for every five civilians.
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Coupled with high relative strength in the previous twelve months, a low price-to-sales ratio is one of the most potent combinations of investment criteria.
On the one hand, the ratio of capital to assets would be boosted very significantly in "good" RBS, because some loans and investments with very high risk weights (in the jargon) would have been detached.
Not only does that already comprise a ratio of one device per 1.4 employees, said Lance Perry, vice-president of IT customer strategy and success for Cisco, during an excellent presentation at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) conference in San Francisco on Monday.
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