Because the market for Treasury debt is the largest and most heavily traded in the world, and because investors evaluate almost every other type of bond using a Treasury security as a benchmark, even the smallest change in the government's financing has effects at home and abroad.
Results clearly show that the proposed games with statistical CSI largely improve the initial EE while suffering a limited gap with respect to the instantaneous CSI benchmark, even for very high network loads.
Our retention is 50%+ in retail annually which is way above benchmarks even though we only pay attention to our own benchmark.
The target, enacted in 2004 and eliminated last year, was set at 8.5percentt of enrollment, and school districts were penalized for exceeding that benchmark, even though the state and national averages had both long been about 12percentt.
Obama this week defended the pace of implementation, telling reporters that the government was working hard to "make sure that we're hitting all the deadlines and the benchmarks" even with the challenge of building the new online exchanges.
If mass extinctions are defined as loss of at least 75% of species on a global scale, our data suggest that North American mammals had already progressed one-fifth to more than halfway (depending on biogeographic province) towards that benchmark, even before industrialized society began to affect them.
Although goal attainment was low among all patient cohorts, presence of CKD decreased the likelihood of meeting this benchmark even further.
Back in the 1990s, a much less volatile benchmark — the even more obscure-sounding 11th District Cost-of-Funds Index — was the norm for these loans.
But though he accepted responsibility as the man in charge when Deutsche's investment bankers were fiddling the benchmark rates, even after the record fine in April Mr Jain insisted he would not be resigning.
If any of these tricks could distort the benchmark by even a few cents, it might create a handy profit on contracts that are priced off it.Oil consumers have been quick to rage at news of this week's raids.
