Sentence examples for benchmarks are set from inspiring English sources
(From 2012 to 2016, average mileage benchmarks are set to rise from 33.8 miles per gallon to 39.5 m.p.g).
When the foreign exchange benchmarks are set, they are based on actual dealing prices on which trades are submitted.
Bloomberg News reported that employees had been manipulating the rate by pushing through client trades before and during 60-second windows when the benchmarks are set.
Regulators are investigating whether traders pushed through trades around the one minute window when the benchmarks are set to try and influence them.
Eurofer says the benchmarks are set at "unfeasibly" low levels, resulting in some cases of clean production in Europe being curtailed to the benefit of less sophisticated production methods elsewhere.
Industry benchmarks are set by a number of associations and cover each type of company operating within the events sector; in turn, these associations often have an educational arm.
Following the Bristol tragedies in the late 90s, when up to 100 babies are thought to have died through "multifactorial and multidisciplinary problems," a number of benchmarks were set, the crucial one here being that heart units should be merged until each one performed a minimum of 400 operations between four surgeons.
Benchmark foreign exchange rates, known as the WM/Reuters benchmark, were set every day at 4pm in London.
If a stock's price moves sharply after hours, a new benchmark is set for the stock's opening the next morning.
On the positive side it allows for a concentration of liquidity because the price benchmark is set at just two points in the day.
