Sentence examples for fix a benchmark from inspiring English sources
And in late May the annual negotiations to fix a benchmark price for iron ore between its three biggest producers (Rio, BHP and Vale) resulted in Japan's steelmakers securing a price cut of 33% from last year.That is not enough for China's steelmakers, which are abandoning the 40-year-old system for fixing the price of iron ore and demanding an even fiercer cut.
To fix a benchmark, Fig. 4a d shows the sets of beam patterns associated to the (all real) basis directions of standard uniform-weighing λ/2-spaced arrays of physical lengths L a = λ/2, λ, 3λ/2, 2λ (i.e., with M =2, 3, 4, 5), respectively.
Barclays had been caught taking part in an industry-wide conspiracy to fix Libor, a benchmark interest rate, and the members of parliament wanted to know what was going on.
A finding that it fiddled currency markets, or a further fine for its part in fixing LIBOR, a benchmark interest rate, could cost it €3 billion.
Besides these two additions, Google engineers and "latency buster" Hannes Payer also writes that the team fixed a number of existing benchmarks "to help ensure that they measure what they were intended to".
Besides these two additions, Google engineers and "latency buster" Hannes Payer also writes that the team fixed a number of existing benchmarks "to help ensure that they measure what they were intended to". These include the GameBoy emulator, a regular expressions test, as well as Octane's CodeLoad, DelataBlue and NavierStokes tests.
But urban fixed asset investment, a benchmark of capital spending, soared 32.9% in the first five months of the year, on the back of the country's aggressive stimulus spending and policy-driven lending ("China Spends Away Export Woes").
Ten former employees at Deutsche Bank and Barclays are to be charged by the Serious Fraud Office SFOO) in relation to allegations they plotted to fix benchmark euro interest rates.
The bank has already paid billions in fines and settlements related to accusations that it colluded with other banks to fix benchmark interest rates, and that it violated international sanctions against countries like Iran.
