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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Efficiency ratio The efficiency ratio measures effective cost management and operational efficiency, and is defined as non-interest expenses divided by revenue. Total shareholder return (TSR) TSR is often considered the ultimate measure of shareholder value, and the outcome of delivering against the financial targets.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks.

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China Interest Rate Crisis Continues: 7-Day Interest Rate Doubles to 10% in One Week; China Bans Words "Cash Crunch"

MishTalk

An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession.

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Monetarists Accuse ECB of "Dangerous Game of Chicken"; The REAL Dangerous Game

MishTalk

In addition to holding its benchmark rate at 0.25%, the ECB also left the rate it pays on bank deposits unchanged at zero. The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. ECB president Mario Draghi said: "We have to dispense with this idea of deflation.

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Jeremy Grantham 1999, Jeremy Grantham Today: "Over Next Seven Years, Market Will have Negative Returns"

MishTalk

The next bust will be unlike any other, because the Fed and other centrals banks around the world have taken on all this leverage that was out there and put it on their balance sheets. We produced pretty good numbers, but they’re way behind the benchmark. We have never had this before. Assets are overpriced generally.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

While the benchmark deposit rate was officially lowered from 3.00% to 2.75%, the upper limit that banks can pay for deposits remained unchanged at 3.30%. It may seem strange to have both a benchmark rate and a “floating range” that establishes a cap, instead of just setting a cap, as was the case until very recently.

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