Sentence examples for benchmarks such as from inspiring English sources
The integrity of benchmarks such as Libor and Euribor are of fundamental importance to both UK and international financial markets.
10.32am BST Heads-up: MPs are holding a hearing this afternoon into concerns that financial benchmarks (such as the daily foreign exchange fixes) are being manipulated.
Indeed the insight helped establish the case for the growth of low cost "tracker funds" which mimic benchmarks such as the S&P 500 index.
For example, it wants the currency bloc to use benchmarks, such as how long it takes to launch a business or the number of days it takes to enforce a contract.
Even though prices soared to apparently unsustainable levels—judged by conventional benchmarks, such as the ratio of house prices to average earnings they still appeared affordable when debt-servicing costs were compared with income, thanks to low interest rates.
Other benchmarks—such as the evocative Light Louisiana Sweet, or the North Sea's unsentimental Dated Brent are the work of price-reporting agencies (PRAs), businesses which make money by gathering market information and selling it to subscribers.
Ms Abrantes-Metz terms the spikes "too frequent and too large" to be mere chance.The couple have previously highlighted problems in other benchmarks, such as LIBOR (the London interbank offered rate).
In iShares it has the biggest name in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a fast-growing sector of quoted entities that mimic benchmarks such as the S&P 500 (see chart 2).But not every bank has a fund-management arm as attractive as BGI.
The net flow of foreign direct investment into Britain has turned positive, according to calculations by currency analysts at HSBC of M&A deals that have been announced.Perhaps the pound's greatest appeal is that it looks cheap against benchmarks such as purchasing-power parity (PPP), which says that exchange rates should equalise the price of a basket of goods in each country.
Labour says this would be based on a benchmark such as average market rents.
This would be based on a benchmark such as average market rents.
