Sentence examples for the value of the benchmark from inspiring English sources

The value of the benchmark Brent crude has tumbled 40% since June and edged down to $66.50£4242) a barrel on Tuesday compared with $115 in the summer.

The value of the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude has already fallen from $107 last June to less than $44 but analysts at Goldman Sachs forecast another huge plunge in WTI.

Though there is less buying and selling, the people who have remained in the market are willing to pay higher prices, driving the value of the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500-stock index up 102 percent since the market hit a bottom in the spring of 2009.

The magazine said a 31% rise in the value of the Nikkei benchmark index last year had benefited Japan's business elite, despite the return of deflation to the world's second biggest economy.

For instance, according to the market data service Bloomberg, the value of the current 10-year benchmark UK gilt, redeemable in 2022, has gone up by 21% since it was first issued in February 2009.

An increase of one percentage point in interest rates could result in a 4percentt decline in the value of the Lehman Aggregate Bond index, a benchmark consisting of corporate and government bonds, according to Mark Kiesel, an executive vice president of Pimco, whose Total Return bond fund is the world's largest.

The reference to a new set of benchmarks for determining the value of the yuan holds out the possibility of a departure from past practice.

Just as equity indices are weighted by the market value of the constituent companies, fixed-income benchmarks are weighted by the value of the debt.

If the value of the CI of health changes had fallen between a pair of benchmark values, then one measure would have implied that health mobility was equalising whereas the other would have suggested it was disequalising.

The value of benchmark Brent crude has plunged in recent months from $115 in June to as low as $77.

The Nomura Securities Company and at least seven others already quit the market, whose leading index of 33 stocks is worth $13.1 billion, less than 3percentt of the value of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index.