In a total reversal, the list of todays advancers reads like the list of yesterdays biggest losers, topped by benchmark names such as Intel intc, Microsoft msft, Dell dell, Amazon amzn and Yahoo! yhoo.
The Bush administration's top benchmark, the Iraqi oil law, remains off the statute books, five deadlines and two years since its first draft.
The focus on non-profit organizations' overhead expenses as a top benchmark for performance has hindered capacity-building efforts and limited the entrance and retention of talent in the sector.
University of Maryland professor Russell Wermers figures the average actively managed aggressive-growth fund tops its benchmark by 2.6% a year, before expenses three times the margin of the average actively managed value fund.
The Liberty All-Star Equity Fund boasts a 5-person management team that adds a dash of growth to its value focus and this shows in USA's results: the fund has doubled the market's return this year and tops the benchmark over the last 1-year, 3-year and 5-year periods, too!
Not everyone is going to gain admission, even if, as I noted in my previous post, they meet the top benchmarks for acceptance: stratospheric test results and transcripts.
"We got out to a super head start," said Jared Ishkanian, a spokesman for Snowbird, where snow gauges topped the 100-inch benchmark on Nov. 22, putting the month on par with the normally snowier January and February.
This type of analysis could also help to support the statement "For the top ranked benchmark complexes, the majority of the top 5 ECs is correct to within 8A... .......... with a more quantitative analysis (Table 1 only shows 7 of the 30 complexes in the dataset; Supplementary file 3 shows all individual contact maps, but no overall quantification).
William's speed of 101.271 meant he was the only rider to top the 100mph benchmark among the 350s, on board his Davies Motorsport four cylinder Honda.
Yesterday, its benchmark Tasi index topped out at 20,000.
Readings from the Arctic, which is warming at roughly twice the rate as the rest of the globe, first topped 400 in 2012; the benchmark reading at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii broke 400 in 2013.
