Bass ratio gauges how efficiently low notes, compared with middle notes, carom from the walls and other surfaces; a high bass ratio gives a hall what musicians call warmth.
The first is the price-to-income ratio, a gauge of affordability.
The drop left the inventory-to-sales ratio, a gauge of how long goods remain in warehouses, at 1.26 months' worth, the lowest since May 1997.
With shipments falling, the inventory-to-shipments ratio, a gauge of how long goods remain in warehouses, rose to 1.34 months from 1.32 months.
The bid-to-cover ratio, a gauge of demand, was 1.98 times the amount of notes sold, above that of the last seven sales.
Tyrie has already indicated he intends to ask the Bank of England policymakers about the leverage ratio – a gauge of a bank's financial strength – following the publication of a consultation paper on Friday on how this key measure would operate.
The inventory-to-sales ratio, a gauge of how long stockpiles stay on shelves at the current sales pace, was 1.37 months in March, figures from the Commerce Department showed today.
House prices in most other markets are still well above "fair value", which we define as the long-run average of two measures: the price-to-income ratio, a gauge of affordability, and the price-to-rents ratio, an analogue of the price-to-earnings ratio used to judge the equity value of listed firms.
Because financial companies inherently carry a lot of debt, Lynch didn't use the debt/equity ratio to gauge their financial health.
If a fund is not rated for tax efficiency by Forbes or Morningstar, you can look at the turnover ratio to gauge how big the tax tab might be.
