Everyone agrees on the destination: lots more pure equity, the highest-quality buffer against losses.
Minimize your losses by finding quality companies that are temporarily selling at discounted prices.
The bank faces substantial further losses on poor quality loans it has made, especially property loans made by the Britannia Building Society, with which it merged in 2009.
The financial sector is working its way back to health, and the second quarter should show distinct signs of improvement, but investors need to keep a sharp eye out for the usual suspects that have marred results for the past few years: loan losses and credit quality.
The rise in satellite television and the internet has promoted and accelerated coverage of disasters, but the media industry's losses have damaged the quality and depth of the reporting.
Reynolds says, based on his analysis, the BCS ranking system does no better than a simple formula combining wins and losses with respect to the quality of opponents beaten.
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The suit alleges that the bank lied about the quality of mortgages it handled leading to huge losses for the government when the loans went bad.
The US government alleges that Wells Fargo lied about the quality of mortgages it handled, leading to huge losses for the Federal Housing Administration.
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"Under these circumstances, growing student numbers whilst maintaining a commitment to the quality of the student experience would lead to unsustainable losses, " it said.
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Because it allows financial institutions' debt portfolios to get larger, "the practice could magnify trading losses for banks or brokerage firms if credit quality deteriorates, " one of the people said.
It called on the health secretary to carry out robust scrutiny, including risk assessment, of the impact of job losses in the NHS on the safety and quality of patient care and the provision of frontline NHS services.
The "Delivering Quality First" programme involves more than 2, 000 job losses across the BBC over five years.
Not only are banks watchful of credit quality, but bank examiners are very cautious worried about loan losses.
Digital revenues, while growing, aren't doing so at the rate required to replace losses from print, forcing most papers to cut staff and quality.
The government-controlled housing giants, which have suffered billions of dollars in losses in recent years, have said that the lender misrepresented the quality of the loans.
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"With Danny Orr and Scott Hill, Quins have two quality half-backs, and even though they have had a few tough losses and we have hit a bit of form, they could come to our place and turn it on, " he said.
An external report into the trading losses, which was completed this week, contains sharp words about the quality of NatWest's management.
You spend a lot of time thinking about market strategy, budgets, profits and losses, negotiating with the central administration and raising revenues while also maintaining quality and efficiency.
The company attributed its focus on quality subscribers as the reason behind the reduction in gross additions, which led to net subscriber losses.
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Silver and platinum group metals could still suffer further losses, especially if investors focus on their industrial nature, rather than any safe haven quality.
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But for Toyota, for common sense, and for simple justice, the most egregious and outrageous lawsuits must be those solicited by class action lawyers to make Toyota compensate owners of Toyota vehicles who claim to have suffered losses on the trade-in or resale value of their cars due to the alleged quality issues and recalls in 2009-2010.
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Those securities soured and have resulted in a plethora of losses for investors who have turned around and sued BofA accusing the bank of misleading them about the quality of the investments.
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Another of its recommendations is that banks must have a buffer to absorb the impact of potential losses or future financial crises - of at least 10% of domestic retail assets in top-quality form, such as shares or retained earnings.
Another of the ICB's recommendations is that banks must have a buffer to absorb the impact of potential losses or future financial crises - of at least 10% of domestic retail assets in top-quality form, such as shares or retained earnings.
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