Sentence examples for local benchmarks from inspiring English sources

Financial regulators in Asia are focusing on whether local benchmarks can be manipulated in the same way as Libor.

HONG KONG — As regulators around the world investigate whether big banks manipulated a crucial global interest rate, authorities in Asia are looking into whether local benchmarks could also be influenced.

Across the region, Libor is used as the base rate for roughly two-thirds of all large-scale corporate borrowings, while the remaining one-third is pegged to local benchmarks that are set independently in each country.

When we started, there weren't a lot of local benchmarks or data about the Brazilian market.

In comparison to local benchmarks, the environmental impact of buildings during operation lies between that of embodied energy in buildings and mobility in the service sector (business flights).

We estimated that an increase in close to 4% of today's average efficiency of photovoltaic technology would allow the area to comply with those local benchmarks.

The local benchmark Hang Seng index fell 1.3 percent on Friday and is almost 13 percent down from its year-to-date highs in February.

As part of its investigation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said 133 traders at firms like Credit Suisse, Citigroup and ING tried to influence the local benchmark rate for their own financial gain over a five-year period starting in 2007.

LONDON – Twenty of the world's largest banks were censured by Singapore authorities on Friday over the attempted manipulation of local benchmark interest rates that is part of a larger rate-rigging scandal being investigated by global regulators.

Rare cases aside, Conway will immediately dump any loser that underperforms its local benchmark by 15%.

The local benchmark, the Bombay Sensex index, blew past the 10,000 mark earlier this year, paused briefly, and then blasted through the 12,000 barrier to above 12,600 (an all-time high) in May.