The working-age population of China will peak around 2015, putting a premium on sustaining growth in productivity to ease deteriorating dependency ratios.
The corporate sector is now more dependent for funds on capital markets than is comfortable, and U.S. banks have deteriorating financial ratios.
He said: In light of an anticipated harsher regulatory settlement, we reiterate our call for a dividend cut of 15% in 2016 as we see United's credit metrics and dividend payout ratio deteriorating.
This clearly had to entail some lowering of standards.In a forthcoming survey of higher education in ten rich countries, the OECD reports that the growth in demand has caused deteriorating staff-student ratios, overcrowding, and great unevenness in the quality of teaching and learning.
The potential precedent is Japan, where nearly two decades of fiscal deficits and a deteriorating debt-to-GDP ratio have not stopped investors from buying bonds at yields of less than 2%.But is this really an encouraging example?
Hedge funds which bet that Japan's deteriorating debt-to-GDP ratio would eventually cause its bond yields to soar as the price of bonds dropped have been repeatedly disappointed.Generalising from Japan's experience would be risky.
The Dubai announcement caused the cost of this insurance to rise sharply for the emirate itself, though it has since fallen back a bit (see chart).Outside the Middle East the market that suffered most was Greece, which combines a high debt-to-GDP ratio, a deteriorating budget deficit and an historic inability to tackle its fiscal problems.
The odds ratio for deteriorating VFs over 2 years with nocturnal dips >10% in systolic or diastolic BP was 3.32 (1.84–6.00) and 2.09 (1.20–3.64), respectively [ 65].
Our data also demonstrate that the synthesis of both 1-Ins P7 and Ins P8 is likely well-protected from the consequences of the deteriorating [ATP]/ [ADP] ratio that cells experience when undergoing bioenergetic stress.
The ratio of public to private health workers has deteriorated from a ratio of 12.0 public sector health workers per 10,000 population to 10.7 per 10,000 population [ 10].
