In May it raised that to ratio to 0.35 and promised to buy back up to 12% of its stock.
According to IBM, sentiment on the topic of gasoline prices, which have declined recently, is more positive than last year, with a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative mentions in 2012 compared with a 1 to 1 ratio in 2011.
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The aim to reduce the debt to GDP ratio to 120% of 2020 will not be reached.
The plan was to put the country on a sustainable path, with the target of reducing the debt to GDP ratio to 120% by 2020.
Will there be certain debt-to-income ratio or loan-to-value ratio thresholds imposed?
This means the Ryan budget reduces the debt to GDP ratio to 50% in 10 years from 74.2% this year (and heading higher) and thus steers the U.S. away from the Greek fiscal rocks.
But Mr. Osborne may wonder why Mr. King is saying this now, as RBS nears the end of a five-year restructuring that has seen it cut its balance sheet almost in half and reduce its loan to deposit ratio to a healthy 100%.
The ratio of average CEO pay to the average pay of other 0.1 percenters is comparable to or lower than the ratio in the early 1990s and roughly similar to the average ratio since the 1930s.
But last week, for the week ended November 16, insiders had moved sharply to the buy side again, the sell-to buy ratio dropping to less than half its long-term average.
All things being equal, a low price-to-sales ratio is good news for investors, while a very high price-to-sales ratio can be a warning sign.
And about another 8 million have a mortgage with a loan to value ratio between 95 to 100%.
Say the krona strengthens to a ratio of eight to the euro--by 12.5%, in other words.
The IMF has insisted that Greece's debt to GDP ratio must fall to 120% of GDP by 2020.
Although Index Mundi reports that the 2012 Debt to GDP ratio for Cypress to be a relatively healthy 80.9%, the reality is a whole lot worse.
In practice, Germany does not always take an absolutist view: it was one of the first countries to breach the euro's rules on deficits, and its debt-to GDP ratio is close to the euro-area average, higher than that of wobbly Spain.
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This Greek debt drama has profound lessons for the U.S. whose debt to GDP ratio is expected to reach 90% by 2012 according to Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at Cato Institute and Chairman of the institute for Global Economic Growth.
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They want the chancellor to legislate for a lower ratio, of perhaps 25 to 1, and to give the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary the ratio, depending on prevailing financial conditions.
The usual practice is to invert this ratio to find what's called a capitalization rate.
Moreover, the government plans to raise this ratio to a staggering 5% by 2012.
Other research has linked a high triglyceride-to-HDL ratio to arterial stiffness in adults.
As a result, the team lowered its debt-to-equity ratio to 1.8 from 2.
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In the last five years MDC has lowered its debt-to-capital ratio to less than 35% from more than 50%.
One economist observed that during such consumer deleveraging cycles, consumers reduce their debt to income ratio by about 30 to 35 percent.
The shares have collected at least six new buy recommendations in the past three months, pushing its buy-to-hold ratio to nearly 2-to-1.
Cnooc said it will continue to track its debt-to-equity ratio to make it comparable with its peers, and will maintain healthy and stable financials.
But officials say that merely to lower Greece's debt-to-GDP ratio to that of heavily indebted Italy, the unofficial goal, would require a sum several times bigger.
One area with potential is gold equities, which have lagged bullion significantly this year, pushing the gold-to-XAU ratio to the second-lowest level in nearly 30 years in June.
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Over at the American Enteprise Institute, John Makin and Daniel Hanson suggest not to worry too much about the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio, then turn around and warn against letting the sequester take effect because, ironically, it would raise the debt-to-GDP ratio by slowing the economy.
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