Sentence examples for measures of capital from inspiring English sources

Sociologists have long identified at least two additional measures of capital: social and cultural.

That would hurt some important measures of capital, but not others.

Two big lenders, Barclays and Nationwide, that were doing fine under the conventional measures of capital fell short on the leverage test.The pressure is ratcheting up elsewhere, too.

One way to cut through the blurriness caused by risk-weightings and futuristic projections is to go back to simpler, less subjective measures of capital adequacy.

Ms. Schäfer said, though, that current measures of capital reserves were "useless" because they did not capture the risk from holdings of government bonds, which the International Monetary Fund this week estimated at 300 billion euros for European banks.

Of the big listed institutions, only a handful which, embarrassingly, included Citigroup flunked any of the convoluted measures of capital strength that were used to test lenders' resilience in the face of another economic shock.

Then, a crucial regulatory measure of capital was actually in the red.

Having a second, risk-adjusted, measure of capital removes that incentive.

Common Tier 1 equity, a measure of capital, fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent.

On one important alternative measure of capital, Goldman Sachs had a poor showing compared with its peers.

One popular measure of capital is "shareholders' equity," which consists largely of money invested in the firm and retained earnings.