Sentence examples for of common equity from inspiring English sources

JPMorgan said its decision to lower its quarterly dividend to 5 cents per share from 38 cents will save $5 billion of common equity a year.

Merrill also raised $9.8 billion of common equity and shed $31 billion of its risky mortgage investments for pennies on the dollar.

The so-called Basel III rules will require banks to raise the amount of common equity they hold to 7 percent of assets from 2 percent.

Their capital is a mix of common equity, which is first in line when losses strike, and various other instruments, often hybrids of equity and debt.

America's capital injections to date have imposed less onerous terms, but its banks still need a reasonable level of common equity to act as a credible first defence against losses.

During 2008 and 2009, a number of distressed banks were rescued by states injecting funds in the form of common equity and other high quality, of Tier 1, capital.

And rating agencies and regulators consider preferred stock a less permanent and therefore inferior form of capital to common equity.Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks the Treasury should start purchasing common equity instead, as the British government has done.

The latest deal could see the government ending up with a 36% stake in the bank through the conversion of preferred stock to common equity.

(Taxpayers still own $2.1 billion in preferred stock of G.M. and 61 percent of its common equity).

"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that taxpayers will lose around $30 billion on G.M". (Taxpayers still own $2.1 billion in preferred stock of G.M. and almost 61 percent of its common equity).

Only about half now consists of tangible common equity, the purest and most flexible form of capital which bears the "first loss" when an asset goes sour.