Shrinking economies cannot shrink their ratios of debt to output.
Typically, their ratios of tier-one capital to risk-weighted assets exceed 10% (see chart).
If their ratios were raised much further, their shareholders might well go on strike.
But if their ratios of non-performing loans (NPLs) ever rose too high, the government would step in.
Now, buyers who have missed a payment will have 5 percent of the total balance added to their ratios.
She is also proposing that nurseries be allowed to relax their ratios when qualified staff are present, so that instead of one staff member to four children aged two, the number would rise to one to six.
Despite the improvement in its Tier 1 ratio, by that measure Deutsche Bank ranks well below some of its rivals, including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, all of which have said their ratios are above 14percentt.
Conversely, large companies need to post big numbers to move their ratios in fractions.
The three unidentified tumours (by PET) where considered hot/cold depending on their ratios.
Their ratios on gold nanoisland were optimized for the sensitive detection of superoxide dismutase (SOD1).
The numerical distribution of patterns among limb groups was determined and their ratios compared.
