Sentence examples for benchmark is set from inspiring English sources

If a stock's price moves sharply after hours, a new benchmark is set for the stock's opening the next morning.

That benchmark is set at £8.20 an hour, or £9.35 an hour in London, but it is not a legally enforceable amount.

One suspected method is "banging the close": submitting a quick succession of orders just as the benchmark is set, to distort its value.

It is perhaps accurately argued that the benchmark is set at a 2 1 because there are so many graduates achieving this grade, so why should they consider those who attain below this?

A benchmark is set via the delocalised basis for DFT models of δ-doped Si P against which the localised basis techniques are assessed.

A benchmark is set as soon as one of the mining giants has concluded a deal with a steelmaker, and the other two miners will follow to adopt similar prices for the coming year's contracts.

Benchmark foreign exchange rates, known as the WM/Reuters benchmark, were set every day at 4pm in London.

In most examined cases, the benchmark was set to 1.5%%.

The first iteration benchmark was set to 100; however, 100 iterations lacked the statistical rigour to apply it to all models.

The referral rate benchmark was set at 2.5%% of patients consulting at the health centre for curative reasons.

Although this quality indicator was not designed to compare facilities with one another, additional analyses (not shown) revealed that our local facility's performance needed to improve, regardless of whether the national average, or a higher benchmark, was set as the target.