"benchmark now" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in a sentence as a verb, noun, or adverb. As a verb: "We need to benchmark now so we can track our progress." As a noun: "The new product has set a benchmark now for other companies in the industry." As an adverb: "Our company is performing benchmark now in terms of customer satisfaction." Example sentence: "Our team has been working hard to improve our efficiency and we can proudly say that we are benchmark now in our industry."
Facebook, an obvious benchmark, now trades on a multiple of about 20 times its last 12 months of sales.
One impact of the Fed keeping its short-term benchmark, now at 1.25percentt, low is that longer-term rates will come down.
Mitt Romney Again, Mr. Romney had withdrawn from the campaign almost a month before Ohioans went to the polls, so his 2008 county-level results are not a great benchmark now.
"The top-tier Chinese firms are kind of the benchmark now," said Shayle Kann, a managing director of solar power studies at GTM Research, a renewable energy market analysis firm based in Boston.
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve's decision not to reduce its short-term interest rate benchmark, now at 1.75percentt, led to a sharp sell-off at the end of the day.
That is no longer a given, says Chomka: "Before people would look at Michelin and the Good Food Guide as the ultimate benchmark; now they're happy to go to places that aren't feted by the guides".
Of the seven benchmarks now being consulted on, three are linked to interest swaps - the so-called ISDA fix, and two rates known as Sonia and Ronia – while the others are gold, silver, the Brent oil futures contact and the currency benchmark known as WM which prices foreign exchange rates at 4pm London time.
However, he said that Heathrow was starting to see the benefits of a decade of heavy investment culminating in the opening of Terminal 2, with international benchmarking now putting them ahead of Amsterdam's Schiphol for the first time as the best European hub in terms of customer service scores.
Then came the professional development meetings this summer where she was told to teach the Common Core State Standards, a new set of academic benchmarks now being adopted by the majority of U.S. states.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, the industry benchmark, is now 5.74percentt, HSH said.
With the Fed's benchmark rate now at 1percentt, only 3percentt of assets in the funds fall into this category.
