Putting a stress test to a company's culture offers benchmarks to fix the problem.
In the first two months of 2008 real urban fixed investment, the benchmark measure of capital spending, rose 18% from a year earlier; annual growth ranged between 23% and 25% over most of 2007.
The sentences bring to an end the biggest trial so far for rigging interest rates - in this case the Euribor benchmark used to fix the interest rates of millions of euro-denominated loans.
After the Libor scandal erupted in 2012, the government made fixing the interest rate benchmark an offence that could lead to a seven-year jail term.
We fixed the height at benchmark No. 212 in the Shiga prefecture, which was located sufficiently far from the focal region (Fig. 1).
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.
THE drumbeat of investigations, lawsuits and settlements in the widening scandal over the fixing of benchmark interest rates such as LIBOR has been so steady as to be almost soporific, reducing their ability to shock.
The affair follows a series of scandals, including the fixing of benchmark interest rate Libor, that have severely damaged the public's perception of the banking industry.
Its currency traders are accused of meeting in virtual chatrooms and planning the fixing of benchmark prices.
It is alleged that traders used online chatrooms to collude in the fixing of benchmark prices, which are used as reference rates for trillions of dollars of investment and trade globally.
