Further, electronic controls tailor the gear ratios to fit one's driving style, from meek to aggressive.
Many Greek sculptors used a set of ratios to make their statues realistic.
Finally, he reviews price-to-cash-flow ratios to assess capital spending and working capital.
This profit boom has allowed standard, one-year P/E ratios to remain fairly low.
The screens also take into account price-to-sales ratios, to help him find valuation anomalies, he said.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced on Saturday it would allow a 0.5% cut in banks' reserve requirement ratios – to 20.5% in most cases – from 24 February.
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But trying to compare one television manufacturer's claim of high contrast ratios to another's cannot be done by looking at numbers.
"Restoring inventory-to-sales ratios to moderately higher levels will require substantial inventory investment," said Steven Wood, president of Insight Economics in Danville, Calif.
Raising these ratios to, say, 15 percent would help ease concerns about mortgage losses.
They want to increase banks' capital ratios to avoid future financial crises.
