The biggest of the G-SIFIs would hold around 10percentt in Core Tier 1 capital, the main benchmark of a bank's stability.
Prices have staged only a partial recovery: West Texas Intermediate (WTI), one of the main benchmark prices for crude, was just above $100 a year ago and hit a low of around $44 in March; it had recovered to just $60 by the middle of this week.
The S&P 500 index, the market's main benchmark, finished the year with a loss of 6.2percentt.
Even investment-grade bond funds require scrutiny — a lesson taught last year, when the average intermediate-term fund lost nearly 5percentt while the main benchmark, the Barclays Capital aggregate index, gained a bit over 5percentt, according to Morningstar.
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For the moment, next-day delivery is the main benchmark of quality in the industry.
Morgan Stanley's return on equity, Wall Street's main benchmark of profitability, is 6 percent, down from 23.8 percent in 2006.
The main benchmark oil quoted in the United States, West Texas Intermediate, has fallen much more sharply than Brent crude, closing Tuesday at $75.67 a barrel, down $1.94.
Fewer than 20% of pupils achieved five good GCSE passes, including mathematics and English (the main benchmark for secondary students, involving exams commonly taken at 16).
Mr. Zhou said this month that many banks appeared to have stepped up new lending to drive down their percentage of all outstanding loans classified as nonperforming, the main benchmark Beijing has used to measure banks over the last two years.
