1. The pressure to revert to maximising leverage ratios and suppress local authority and community-led development would be intense.

2. Chinese households' leverage ratio is still quite low.

3. Such a high leverage ratio makes investors extremely nervous, even if a large portion of that leverage ends up being relatively benign government agency debt.

4. The fourth aspect of the financial leverage ratio is too high.

5. The guidelines call for a Tier 1 leverage ratio of 15 percent for three years. Currently, well-capitalized banks must have Tier 1 captial of at least 6 percent of risk-weighted assets.

6. To stabilize financial markets, financial leverage ratio must be reasonable . U.

7. Basel announced its planned new leverage ratio or cap on debt will be pegged at 3 percent -- not as high as banks had feared and a level that wholesale banks are already above, Morgan Stanley said.

8. The guidelines call for a Tier 1 leverage ratio of 15 percent for three years. Currently, well-capitalized banks must have Tier 1 capital of at least 6 percent of risk-weighted assets.

9. The financial leverage ratio (total assets divided by shareholders' equity) is an all-purpose debt gauge.

10. Put differently, Lehman's net leverage ratio was either 15 times or 17 times, both sky-high.

11. Nothing wrong with that, except that the leverage ratio explicitly excludes lending the banks undertake domestically from calculations of capital.

12. But despite the high leverage ratio and uncertainty, there are options available to MF Global to continue as a going concern.

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13. We need to establish and enforce strict capital and leverage ratio requirements, bring the shadow banking system under supervision and regulation and formulate globally consistent accounting rules.

14. All these things mean that banks will reduce the credit to reduce its leverage ratio.

15. Since the middle of 2007, Morgan Stanley has raised about twenty billion dollars in new capital and cut in half its leverage ratio—the total value of its assets divided by its capital.

16. That, in turn, helped the firm to reduce its leverage ratio (the level of indebtedness on its balance sheet), avoid a rating downgrade and appear healthier than it actually was.

17. The urgency to retain capital becomes clear when you look at the firm's leverage ratio.

18. For the first time, Basel III will also be introducing a new, internationally applied, leverage ratio requirement that includes firms' off balance sheet commitments and exposures.

19. European nations agreed to support some form of bank leverage ratio - a key US demand.