Those rates inched up, to 2.95 percent with an average of.05 points, as the Fed began replacing $400 billion of its short-term Treasury securities, which serve as benchmarks for many ARMs, Mr. Nothaft said.
The rights of children, their agency, and their "superior interest" have gradually emerged as benchmarks for many national, regional, or local policy narratives, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted in 1989.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the benchmark for many widely held investments like mutual funds, suffered a loss for the quarter of nearly 10percentt.
The yield on the 10-year note, a benchmark for many consumer borrowing rates, rose to its highest closing for the year -- 4.46percentt, up from 4.39percentt on Monday.
Inclusion in the index, a benchmark for many money managers, would be expected to increase demand for shares and drive up prices.
The three-month dollar London interbank offered rate, or Libor, a benchmark for many types of loans and mortgages, fell to a multiyear low of 0.66percentt on May 21.
The retail price index measure of inflation, used as the benchmark for many pay deals, rose to 3.3% from 3.1% in May.
Brazilian bonds have the heaviest weighting in J.P. Morgan's Emerging Market Bond Index Plus (EMBI+)—the benchmark for many money managers and any problem Brazil has makes itself felt.
With its extraordinarily vivid sense of "speaking" the music, Casals's 1940s recording remains the benchmark for many, and in honour of this achievement Siblin weaves Casals's life into the book in counterpoint to Bach's.
While a foul-up in transferring contributions to the funds has yet to be sorted out, a recent report by UBS Warburg, an investment bank, extolled the Polish pension system as "a benchmark for many euro-zone economies to aspire to".
The retail price inflation gauge, which includes more housing costs and is the benchmark for many wage deals picked up to 4.8 percent from 4.7 percent, in line with expectations, and the highest since July 2010.
