ratio

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Other anthropomorphic measures -- including waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio -- can provide additional insight by distinguishing fat mass from muscle and identifying abdominal fat linked to disease risk.

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It’s “exceedingly unusual” for the ratio to fall to 1.0x, and this month it has dropped below that level to 0.8x, he said, as highlighted in the chart below.

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Its price-to-earnings ratio, for instance, at 24 times is the most expensive in emerging markets and is second only to the U.S.’s at almost 27 times.

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“The oil/silver price ratio points to silver being in a speculative bubble and/or oil being excessively out of favor,” Colas wrote, adding that silver prices are likely the more distorted of the two.

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