This is difficult to argue given housing associations' large surplus positions".
The major Canadian banks' Tier 1 ratios, in effect their equity and surplus positions, are at record levels and continue to improve.
Instead, the play is to develop a position on each issue that is more popular than George W. Bush's — a Social Security position, a prescription-drug position, a budget-surplus position — and to out-aggress Bush, work longer hours than he can work, go at him hard, rattle him, and force him into mistakes.
Throughout the day, each side sought to blame the other for the shrinking surplus and position itself to avoid responsibility for what many economists consider the inevitable: using surplus Medicare and Social Security money to pay for spending increases.
The statement also says that Greece's primary fiscal surplus (budget position excluding debt interest payments) for 2015, which was set at 3% of GDP, now can respond to economic conditions.
We expect the European asset managers to deliver strong 2014-16 earnings per share compound annual growth rates, which, combined with strengthening surplus capital positions, indicates scope for a significant ramp-up in shareholder distributions.
In Elton Brand and the recently drafted Marcus Fizer, the Bulls have a surplus at the position.
Put simply, this was a trade surplus from a position of weakness – a reflection of the sluggish domestic economy rather than voracious global demand.Here's a chart showing how unusual it is for large Chinese trade surpluses to coincide with such middling export growth:China's massive trade surpluses used to inspire equal parts admiration and anger about its export juggernaut.
Database searches also disclosed members of group V2, dubbed Spn_94a, with a surplus intron at position 94a (Additional file 1).
