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Singapore, Australia and mainland China benchmarks were each down over 1.5percentnt.

Mr. Garcia said he believed that the new benchmarks were likely to improve the process.

French stocks fell 0.69 percent, while German and British benchmarks were up less than 1 percent.

He declined to elaborate on the details of her bonus, including what the performance benchmarks were.

Wall Street benchmarks were also sharply lower in afternoon trading in New York.

That's why I wanted to make sure that our benchmarks were completely international.

It called for the United States to begin to withdraw from Iraq if certain benchmarks were not met.

Eventually benchmarks were established and managers were judged on whether they beat the industry, or the stockmarket, average.

That his benchmarks were the two urban jewels of Muslim culture at the height of the medieval Islamic empire demonstrated the scale of the ambition.

The benchmarks were used by miners, refiners, traders and end-users to price gold and silver, as well as platinum and palladium, which are chiefly used in autocatalysts.

The seven benchmarks were picked by the "fair and effective markets review" headed by Shafik which will publish its final report in June 2015.