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...common shares, retained earnings and non-cumulative preferred shares) to risk-adjusted assets - is 9.8%, several percentage points above the 7% required by Canada's federal bank regulator. That's a little better than major U.S. commercial banks like Bank of America, but significantly higher than an average capital ratio of about 4% for U.S. investment banks and 3.3% for European commercial banks...
...hard times are ahead. What is harder to determine is how much further stock prices must fall before recession is fully priced into shares, taking into account weakening corporate earnings. In past severe downturns, when the U.S. economy contracted by 2.5% or more, the average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of S&P 500 index stocks has dipped to as low as 10 (the long-term average P/E is 21). From where we stand today, stocks must drop quite a bit more before they reach this historical nadir. How far? Based on 2008 corporate-earnings estimates, the average...
...that stock valuations look cheap," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's. "But if the earnings portion of the price-to-earnings ratio is in question, then how can you say stocks are attractive...
...also says that publicity about CFL bulb use and disposal is more deficient for freshmen, both because of the low ratio of reps (3) to freshman dorms (16), and because recycling is less centralized...
...differences among key groups in Ohio and Pennsylvania are minor when compared with the demographic breakdowns in North Carolina. Though Obama leads in North Carolina by 6 points overall, McCain leads Obama among white women by an overwhelming62% to 32%, which is virtually identical to the ratio for white men, who favor McCain...