Sentence examples for benchmark contract from inspiring English sources

The benchmark contract was attained by Danys Baez, a Cuban pitcher Cleveland signed in 1999.

The benchmark contract, for November crude, closed at $34.99 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down $1.07.

In the absence of sophisticated contracts, the benchmark contract for the IDM and foundry is a wholesale price contract.

Oil prices rose sharply in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, with the benchmark contract for crude up more than 4 percent to $102.91 a barrel.

The benchmark contract, for November crude, closed at $36.06 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, an increase of $2.81, or more than 8percentt, from Wednesday.

The benchmark contract for January crude oil in New York settled at $28.44 a barrel, down 91 cents, or 3.1percentt, on expectations that Iraq would start shipping oil again.

The CME Group, which tops Eurex among derivatives exchanges, trades everything from futures on corn and Treasury debt to benchmark contracts for oil and natural gas.

Energy Futures and Options: ICE offers various global benchmark contracts such as Brent, WTI, Platts Dubai, Gasoil, Heating Oil and more.

It now trades nearly as many contracts as LIFFE, and has usurped its dominance of Europe's benchmark bond contract, the German bund future.

Silver dropped over 12 percent, platinum 5.6 percent and the benchmark oil contract was down 3.9 percent.

The benchmark oil contract for October delivery fell $1.11 to $107.10 a barrel in midday trading in New York.