For decades this ratio had been stable, below 10% of book assets, though it was over 50% in the 1840s, when banks were apt to fail more often.

该比例在过去的几十年间都很稳定，不到帐面价值的10%，尽管19世纪40年代该比例高达50%，但那时银行比现在更容易破产。

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The book gives a yardstick for measuring assets.

该书为评估资产提供了一种标准。

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Both Banks still have lots of legacy assets, many of them tucked in the banking book.

两家银行仍然有许多遗留的资产，许多是记录在银行业账簿上的。

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The huge writedowns on trading-book assets that defined the first phase of the crisis were horribly unpredictable.

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Independence means you own the book of client assets that you have invested considerable time and energy in growing.

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But the Financial Times reported that financial stocks are trading above the book value (assets, including cash, minus liabilities) of the companies for the first time since July.

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