Growth in Mexico over the past 10 years has been a bleak 1percentt on a per capita basis -- better than in much of the rest of Latin America, but far poorer than earlier in the century.
"We expect to do 2,000 basis points better than the market in all conditions," says the boss of one big firm.
I.B.M.'s bonds mature in two years, reducing the risk of a rise in interest rates, and pay a coupon of 0.62percentt, or 21.5 basis points better than Japanese government bonds of similar maturities.
That makes it a fine and, on a scene-by-scene basis, often better than fine, if effectively unadventurous work, in which a man's anguished cry is met by a finale designed to ease the pain.
That's 40 basis points better than yields on comparable AAA 12-year insured bonds.
It's an AA-plus market with yields around 6%-almost 200 basis points better than Euroland bonds.
As of the night of June 19 , 2007 our portfolio was up 11+% with our concentration in large-cap value stocks which that done a couple of hundred basis points better than the S&P 500 and the Russell 1000.
The experimental results indicate that concrete made with MK + GP blend together as a replacement of cement in mass basis behaved better than control concrete made with cement only, and concrete containing only GP as a cement replacement.
According to Table 1, when the target image, image sparse algorithm, the reconstruction algorithm, and other conditions are all the same and the compression ratio is fixed, the Kronecker product matrix based on orthogonal basis performs better than the commonly used certain measurement matrice in the image reconstruction effect of PSNR (4 to 5 dB higher) [11].
The S&P/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.2percentt in February from January on a seasonally adjusted basis, slightly better than economists' median forecast for a drop of 0.3percentt.
Used in a portfolio of separate carry trades (to limit the volatility that comes with making a single bet), it delivered average monthly returns of 57 basis points, much better than the 26 basis-points profit from the simple approach.
