Sentence examples for the major benchmarks from inspiring English sources

Noting that seven weeks ago the market hit its lows after the terrorist attacks, Mr. Crane said: "If you look at the major benchmarks, the Nasdaq's up about 28percentthethe S.& P. is up nearly 16percentt.

Still, investors who were confident that the economy was increasing at a fast enough pace to raise corporate profits next year pushed the major benchmarks to new 18-month highs during the week.

By putting his money into a deal with the Kurds, despite Baghdad's disapproval, he's essentially betting that the Iraqi government — which hasn't met a single one of the major benchmarks Mr. Bush laid out in January — won't get its act together.

The case centers on the major benchmark rates like the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.

Finally, we obtained 243 T3SEs and 486 non-T3SEs, which constitute the major benchmark dataset in this work.

The Russell 2000 Index is one of the world's major benchmarks for small-cap stocks.

The Barclays case is the first major action stemming from the inquiry into how big banks set major benchmarks like the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor.

It's the first major benchmark for evaluating a patient's recovery from the transplant.

But the broader major benchmark indexes tempered their enthusiasm, as investors in Asia awaited U.S. jobs data for May to be released later Friday.

The magazine hopes the new indexes -- which will move up and down as a stock measure, just like the Dow Jones average -- will become major benchmarks of stock performance in the broader market as well as the increasingly popular technology sector.

The rate-rigging inquiry, which has ensnared more than a dozen big banks, is focused on major benchmarks like the London interbank offered rate, or Libor.