Sentence examples for benchmark down from inspiring English sources

There are now 187,500 with assets in excess of that benchmark, down from from 193,100 in 2014.

One explanation for this could be that traders were deliberately dealing below the prevailing price in order to drag the benchmark down, perhaps because they stood to gain more from other contracts linked to this benchmark.

This was roughly in line with London's FTSE 100 benchmark, down 1.5%; Paris's CAC 40 index, down 1.3%; and the Frankfurt DAX, down 1.2%.

Fifteen per cent of samples tested positive at this benchmark, down from 22% last year but still double the target agreed by the industry.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 6.7percentt, leaving that benchmark down about 52percentt from its peak in October 2007.

The benchmark Downing Street seem keen to use is the so-called EU payments ceiling - what David Cameron likes to call Europe's credit card.

Stocks fell slightly Thursday, pulling benchmark indexes down from 11-month highs on concern the rally outpaced prospects for earnings growth as FedEx and Oracle reported sales that missed analysts' estimates.

This year Pell and Younes' fund is up 8.5%; the benchmark is down 11%.

A total yearly return of -5% in which the relevant benchmark was down 8% actually showed a much better performance by the manager than a 5% return in a year where the appropriate benchmark returned 7%.

Today, Benchmark doubled down on its decision, writing a note addressed to Uber employees, saying that not only should it sue, but "perhaps the better question is why didn't we act sooner".

Mr. Schussel said his government was determined to meet certain "American benchmarks" laid down to measure progress on issues like compensating Nazi-era slave laborers.