The phrase "a benchmark that is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a standard or point of reference that is being defined or described.
Example: "The study established a benchmark that is essential for evaluating future research in this field."
Alternatives: "a standard that is" or "a reference point that is".
DealBook » It is an open secret in the banking world: the interest rates for many mortgages and loans are based on a benchmark that is largely guesswork.
It is an open secret in the banking world: the interest rates for many mortgages and loans are based on a benchmark that is largely guesswork.
In particular, it remains unclear whether Ms. Merkel will gain an outright majority of the deputies, a benchmark that is seen as significant for the political authority of any German chancellor.
As a result, he got a loan from Merrill that floats only 150 basis points — 1.5 percentage points — over the 30-day London interbank offered rate, or Libor, a benchmark that is currently around 0.5percentt.
Germany has benefited from the European Central Bank's low lending rate of 1 percent, a benchmark that is set with the euro zone as a whole in mind but is probably too low for German conditions.
They invest in debt with floating rates, meaning that borrowers' rates fluctuate based on the London Interbank Offered Rate, a benchmark that is repriced every three or six months.
"As a benchmark, that's a very important first cohort," Chisholm explains.
It is now felt that a 50% level of correction is a better benchmark that is equivalent to 27°C reduced temperature correction in a biochemical correction assay.
But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate), a financial benchmark that is set every day by collating these estimates, has been subject to manipulation.
You start by picking an appropriate benchmark that is primarily based on time horizon.
We demonstrate the expressiveness and efficiency of the library by solving a satellite mission management benchmark that is a mix between a traveling salesman problem with time windows and a Knapsack problem.
