Sentence examples for equities against from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, just 17% of institutions' assets are held in equities, against 41% in Chile, notes Urban Larson, of the Baring Latin America Fund.Bovespa's biggest stocks are a state-owned oil giant (Petrobras), a privatised minerals exporter (Vale do Rio Doce) and a bank (Bradesco), which together account for one-third of the market's capitalisation.

Stocks fell across the board around midday, led by a sharp setback for the technology sector, as investors sold off equities against the backdrop of broadly better-than-expected corporate earnings.

But by then it had $7.2 billion in equity against an astounding $26.2 billion in debt.

The regulatory authority also announced on Thursday that local lenders must now hold at least 3 percent of equity against their total assets, also part of the Basel III accountancy rules.

Mainly because Americans will have no extra equity against which to borrow and because a flat market will put a brake on residential building, this is expected to reduce GDP growth by about 1.5 percentage points.

Goldman said it ended the third quarter with a Tier One capital ratio, a measure of equity against risk-weighed assets, of 11.6percentt, above the 6percentt required to be considered a "well capitalized" bank by Fed standards.

But he is best known as the lead plaintiff in the successful lawsuit brought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity against the state to secure more money for city schools.

Tom Hoenig, the vice-chairman of America's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has called for regulators to apply a simple leverage ratio, so that banks hold a minimum amount of equity against their total assets without any mathematical chicanery.Yet if regulators entirely abandon risk weights, banks may just load up with the riskiest and highest-yielding loans.

By our usual standards, Logue is the social-democratic, public-minded hero struggling for diversity and equity against the stranglehold of neighborhood segregation, and a progressive ought to side with him against the hidebound defender of organic communities inhospitable to outsiders.

Second, regulators required banks to hold significantly more equity against assets on its balance sheet than assets in off-balance sheet vehicles.

Wells' tier one common ratio, which measures common equity against risk based assets, was 5.2% at the end of the third quarter, compared with 9% or more at rival banks.