Sentence examples for hold benchmark from inspiring English sources

Central bankers are expected to hold benchmark interest rates steady at the meeting, which ends Wednesday.

Analysts doubted whether the August jobless data would have much effect on the Bank of Canada, which has pledged to hold benchmark interest rates at a record low of 0.25percentt at least through June 2010 as long as inflation stays in check.

The authors found several levels of efficiency in the markets, but overall, TA strategies could not beat the buy and hold benchmark, and prices could not foster excess returns above the market average.

The Federal Reserve has held benchmark interest rates steady for more than a year in hopes that persistent inflation would ease.

The yields investors demanded for holding benchmark Spanish, Greek, Italian and Irish bonds all rose, while they declined for the German equivalents.

The privately held BenchMark is a consulting firm that specializes in measuring, designing and improving operations processes for financial service providers.

Despite a halting recovery in the United States economy, the index has climbed steadily as the Federal Reserve has provided huge support to the financial system, buying hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds and holding benchmark interest rates near zero.

Schmeling (2007) discovers that even simple and easily implementable trading strategies yield consistently higher Sharpe ratios than the Buy-and-Hold benchmarks, on five international markets.

The bank's board also voted unanimously to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.1percentt.

And, with clouds gathering over the economic recovery, the Fed is expected to hold its benchmark rate near zero this week.

At the meeting's conclusion, the committee decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 2percentt.