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ratio
ratio Number relating two numbers or two quantities of the same kind, such as two prices or two lengths, that indicates their relative magnitude. Ratios, as of the numbers 3 and 4, can be written as a fraction
3/
4, or with a colon (3:4).
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Hedge ratios: keeping up with a maturing market. (includes four ages of hedge ratios and measuring price responsiveness to yield change)
Magazine article from: Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa); 1/15/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...importance of hedge ratio. Hedging a physical...need not bother with ratios. They just match...volatility-adjusted ratio drops that to 82...factor-adjusted ratios, the Quantitative...define other hedge ratios and in practice provide...the duration hedge ratio produces the factor...
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Viewpoint: Ratios May Be Holding Mortgage Market Down.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 10/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is the leverage ratio. The other is the capital-adequacy ratios. These guidelines...and the leverage ratio. The Federal Reserve also applies these ratios to large bank holding...indeed, the leverage ratio and the other two ratios are acting as a...
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Financial Ratio Selection for Default-Rating Modeling: A Model-Free Approach and Its Empirical Performance
Magazine article from: Journal of Applied Finance; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Financial ratios are important factors in predicting corporate failure. In this...innovative statistics procedure to identify informative financial ratios and use those ratios to predict default rating. I use three types of different default...
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Performance Ratio Benchmarking of the Top UK General Insurers 2008.
M2 Presswire; 2/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...improvement in their loss ratios in 2007 - Performance ratio benchmarking in UK...improvement in their expense ratios - The average combined ratio of the top 10 UK motor...increases in their expense ratios in 2007 - The average combined ratio of the top 10 UK pecuniary...
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Ratio fight goes national; As Calif. adjusts, backers seek to replicate success.(Workforce Report 2004)
Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare; 6/14/2004; 700+ words
; ...hard to meet the ratios but have been thwarted...estimates that the ratio law will cost hospitals...maintain the required ratios. Thirty-eight...hospitals blamed the ratio law for increased...nurse-to-patient ratios-including a stricter 1-to-4 ratio in general wards...
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Financial Ratios: How You Are Judged
Magazine article from: Flooring; 9/1/1993; 700+ words
; ...their investments. The ratios covered here are the key ratios necessary to make such evaluations. Current ratio = current assets / current...mainstreet. FINANCIAL RATIOS TYPE OF FIRM All Firms Retail Contract Current Ratio 2.1 2.7 2.0 Quick...
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Combined ratios don't tell story on int'l solvency.
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management; 11/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...world. Noting that the ratios were "remarkably stable...Unlike the combined ratio results, the distribution...sometimes use survival ratios - ratios of reserves to current...average E&A survival ratio is 6.9, Lloyd's E...
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Accounting ratios.(Checklist 192)
Newspaper article from: Chartered Management Institute: Checklists: Managing Information and Finance; 10/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...understanding of the significance of such ratios will enable a clearer appreciation...report. Definition An accounting ratio is the comparison of two figures in...as a percentage. Some accounting ratios are well known and frequently used...
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Nursing Ratios Are Focal Point of California Legislative Battle.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/6/2001; 700+ words
; ...ire of nurses who say its ratios are woefully inadequate...unit, the CNA recommends a ratio of 1 to 3 and the California...Healthcare Association advocates a ratio of 1 to 10. "A lot of nurses are saying if the ratios don't come into effect...
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Ratio analysis. (printing estimation) (column)
Magazine article from: Graphic Arts Monthly; 11/1/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...estimator Please discuss ratios and how they are...relationships. Ratio analysis is a fundamental...the more common ratios. 1. Profit to sales. This ratio is computed by dividing...establish a sound ratio. There are many other ratios that you can compute...
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Financial Ratios
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...owners to use financial ratios is to conduct a formal ratio analysis on a regular...used to compute the ratios should be recorded on...with several specific ratio calculations prescribed...RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATIOS Profitability ratios...
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Ratio, Rate, and Proportion
Book article from: Mathematics
...proportion, together with ratio, are used for solving...quantities. Calculating Ratios Suppose a parking garage...two green cars. The ratio of blue cars to green...different units, then a ratio is called a rate. A...equality between two ratios.
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initial strontium ratio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...the initial strontium ratio and the age of the rock...measured present-day ratios of the constituent minerals...initial 87 Sr: 86 Sr ratios are very much smaller...have initial strontium ratios close to 0.703. At...years BP, the bulk Earth ratio is thought to have been...
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Price/Earnings (P/E) Ratio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...x2014; and so did P/E ratios. For these reason it is better to view the P/E ratio as at least in part a...a similarly low P/E ratio, may be quite clearly...What is true of low ratios can also be true of high...the reason for the high ratio is fully justified...
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odds ratio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...ps) then the odds ratio is defined as pe (1...relation. In sociology odds ratios have been most widely...characteristics of the odds ratio are perhaps easiest understood...societies (the odds ratio is approximately 9 in...societies in question. Odds ratios, in the context of a...
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