Sentence examples for benchmarks over the from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the turmoil in Egypt and concerns that political contagion could spread to larger oil producers around the Middle East has caused a price spike of nearly 10 percent in some oil benchmarks over the last week.

Mr. Blix is being pressed by the United States to set "benchmarks" over the next several weeks, demanding that Iraq fulfill its obligations in at least three specific areas: allowing unimpeded interviews with scientists, destroying illegal rockets and allowing unconditional overflights by reconnaissance planes.

As the table (see below) shows, the duo have lagged the fund's benchmarks over the last three years.

Morningstar found that nearly 60% of small-company stock funds lagged their benchmarks over the past five years.

Why should investors pick active managers for small-cap stocks when active managers, in general, have underperformed the benchmarks over the past five years?

All in all, ULIP dominates each of the two benchmarks over the three performance criteria, especially providing a much more energy efficient and fair system.

October 11 , 2012Updated at 10.14am BST 9.53am BST Financial Stability Board to look at oil and gold benchmarks Over at the IMF in Tokyo, the Financial Stability Board has said that in the wake of the Libor scandal, it is looking into the way other benchmarks are set - including oil and gold.

And the level of fees was not a determining factor in which funds beat the benchmark over the long term.

They have barely kept pace with the broad market benchmark over the last decade, with peers far outperforming it.

Among the disappointments: Its real estate investments have not done as well as the industry benchmark over the last five years.

Despite continuous efforts into benchmarking over the last decades, few have focused on management efforts of project organizations who are involved in managing the capital project.