Sentence examples similar to benchmark long from inspiring English sources

The yield of the benchmark long-term bond hovers around 1.2%.

At around 4.2%, yields on ten-year Treasury bonds, America's benchmark long-term interest rate, are virtually identical to where they were a year ago (see chart).

Russia's long-declining fortunes established a dubious benchmark not long ago when economists reported that the country ranked just above Guatemala in per capita income.

If you lack discipline, hire a decent money manager with a good record of matching or surpassing their benchmark over long periods.

The accuracy of the model is high in comparison to the 3D FDM (the prime benchmark), as long as the fin-theory assumption prevails (no 'or negligible' temperature gradient in the fin perpendicularly to the fin length).

Thirty years ago, long-term telephone bonds provided the benchmark for long-term debt (not until 1978 did the U.S. Treasury issue 30-year bonds).

Ten years has proven to be a benchmark for long-running sitcoms.

President George W. Bush's administration considered Iraq's passage of an oil law to split revenues a crucial benchmark to long-term peace.

In the future, the bank said, it would carry out its bond-buying program in such a way that yields on 10-year Japanese government bonds — the benchmark for long-term borrowing costs — would "remain more or less at the current level" (around zero).

News reports yesterday about the smell from it literally blowing in the wind prompted a hurricane of puns: Subterranean Homesick Poos, It Ain't Wee Babe, Straining of the Guard, etc. It's the fact that Dylan is a stony-faced sacred cow who represents the benchmark of long-standing credibility and cool that renders the idea of him having a portable toilet for security guards so comical.

The Sharpe ratios of our strategies outperform the hedging strategy benchmarks for long (1 year) horizons in our prediction period (2000 2010) and also for the current crisis period (2008 2010).