Sentence examples for followed benchmark from inspiring English sources

Prices for West Texas Intermediate crude oil -- a widely followed benchmark -- have climbed from a low of $18.50 in December to about $24 a barrel today.

And a settlement of a class-action suit against a company that publishes a widely followed benchmark of drug prices will cause the publisher to lower the average wholesale prices for more than 2,000 drugs by 5percentt.

That decline pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the widely followed benchmark of large-company stocks, down 20percentt from its peak and into bear market territory for the first time since 1987.

This correlation is especially true for funds that track the MSCI Emerging Market Index, the most followed benchmark for emerging market equities.

For interpretations with regard to the magnitude of the effect, we followed the widely followed benchmarks from evolutionary ecology and other disciplines, in which untransformed r ≈ 0.1 is a small effect, r ≈ 0.3 is a moderate effect, and r ≈ 0.5 is a strong effect (Cohen 1988; Møller and Jennions 2002).

With a playful smile, he referred to Gurley: "If there's no profit opportunity beyond the first four hundred million, Bill's making the case that everyone who follows Benchmark in a later investment round is a moron.

The fees for mutual funds and ETFs that follow benchmark indexes are very low, and the fees for funds that follow strategy indexes are, in relative terms, much higher.

In contrast to indexes that follow benchmarks, these new indexes employed advanced security selection methodologies and alternative weighting schemes.

Following, benchmarking of the numerical simulation shows confidence levels in predicting the interior conditions since discrepancies between experimental data and numerical data are within tolerance limits of the measuring device.

He acknowledged that many Deutsche funds follow benchmarks that carry Greek bonds, a fact of life that usually forces investors to buy large new issues, but referred to the comments of another executive, Jamie Guenther, who said investors needed to avoid heavily indebted companies.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) began an investigation into the £3tn-a-day foreign exchange market in June following allegations that traders at major banks had found ways to manipulate a closely followed currency benchmark.