Sentence examples for financial benchmarks from inspiring English sources

IT HAS been a dreadful couple of years for financial benchmarks.

The three banks are accused of colluding to rig financial benchmarks linked to the euro.

But Mr. Bernabè, 63, gets animated when he talks about the financial benchmarks that have charted the company's recovery.

If so, it would be the latest in a long list of financial benchmarks that have been rigged in ways that have bolstered bankers' bonuses.

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.

It's tempting to think that we might be seeing the end of potential manipulation of financial benchmarks and rates, such as Libor.

These "gag clauses" decrease price transparency and prevent hospitals from discussing the cost of medical devices with their own doctors, third-party financial benchmarking groups and even patients.

The value of banks' trading positions in derivatives and other Libor-influenced securities could be tremendously affected by even relatively small changes in the financial benchmark.

But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate), a financial benchmark that is set every day by collating these estimates, has been subject to manipulation.

"The consequences of a debt default would be harmful not only to the U.S. economy but also globally, given the importance of the U.S. Treasury market as a global financial benchmark," they wrote.

It would be hard to imagine a more thorough undermining of a financial benchmark.LIBOR manipulation might seem like a zero-sum game: lower interest rates mean borrowers pay less, and savers receive less.