The association was responsible for collecting the data from banks and then issuing the Libor benchmark, marketing it as a valuable tool for setting interest rates across a number of currencies.
Benchmark views it as a selling point, though.
Although Mr. Gross's Total Return fund did well last year compared with its benchmark, it did not do as well as some competitors.
While not everyone agrees it's the best benchmark, it is widely accepted as what must be done to stave off dangerous levels global warming that could trigger rapid melting of the ice caps, threaten the world's agricultural production, and lead to more frequent — and costly — storms. .
Using experimentally validated SNVs as benchmark, it was reported that VarScan 2 and MuTect are among the best variant callers for analyzing matched normal and tumor samples.
However, using activity on pNP-βGlc as benchmark, it is noteworthy that both enzymes were active on pNP-β d-cellobioside (Bgl1, 24% and Bgl2, 27%), but only Bgl1 displayed significant activity (10%) on pNP-β d-xylopyranoside.
Bank certificates of deposit pay a percentage of the C.D.I., corporate debt pays a percentage of the C.D.I. or the C.D.I. plus a spread, and most of Brazil's asset management industry uses it as its benchmark.
As a benchmark, it looked at the Fed's effective interest rate, taking into account the actual short-term rate as well as any bond purchases to reduce long-term rates.
As recording engineers came to rely on the NS-10 as a benchmark, it dominated the mixing of pop and rock music throughout the world for at least 20 years.
Using Box Jenkins models' performance as a benchmark, it is concluded that BPNNs generally performed well and consistently for time series corresponding to ARMA p,q) structures.
