Sentences with phrase «as a benchmark for»

They serve as benchmarks for the terms — just as the Kelley Blue Book sets prices for a used car or an earnings multiple is used to value a company.

What disaster will result from the normalization of stupid lies and nonsense as a benchmark for debate over how society should function?

The 10 - year Treasury note's yield, which serves as a benchmark for everything from U.S. mortgages to borrowing costs for municipalities, fell in November to as low as 2.3 percent and topped out at 2.41 percent.

Among other things, S&P is engaged in the business of developing, constructing, compiling, computing and maintaining various equity indices that are recognized worldwide as benchmarks for U.S. stock market performance.

While the Dow Jones industrial average is often used as a benchmark for the economy writ large, it is actually an amalgamation of only 30 different stocks including Apple, Walt Disney and McDonald's.

In the last year, the spread between what a barrel of oil is worth in the Midwest (called WTI — which is usually the oil price you see on the nightly news) and what it's worth either on the Gulf Coast (LLS) or when shipped to Europe (called Brent — which is generally used as a benchmark for world prices) has widened to historic levels.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

The federal funds rate, which governs the cost of lending between banks and serves as a benchmark for the whole economy, has stood at a zero to 0.25 percent range since December 2008, during the depth of the financial crisis.

It's a challenge for Canadians still struggling to cope with the record amounts of consumer debt they amassed after the 2008 financial crisis because lenders use their prime rate as a benchmark for setting some other short - term rates including variable - rate mortgages and lines of credit.

Many investors also use the S&P 500 as a benchmark for their individual portfolios.

However, there are disadvantages to using the S&P 500 as a benchmark for individual portfolio performance.

SPTS provides low - cost access to a marketlike basket of short - term US Treasurys, tracking the same index that we chose as our benchmark for the segment.

For this reason, I would use employer contribution expense as the benchmark for evaluating the value of a TPA to your business.

We use the Henry Hub spot price as a benchmark for the industry.

In addition to market indexes and ETFs, the movement of stock prices of four main companies in the financial services sector — Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway and Goldman Sachs — are also sometimes utilized as benchmarks for the entire sector.

I'm thrilled to share this anonymized data as a benchmark for our customers and the larger marketing community.»

While the VIX Index itself is a gauge and is not investable, Cboe offers the following VIX - related benchmark indexes (all shown in image above) that are designed to serve as benchmarks for hypothetical investable performance over more than a decade.

While lower real returns are likely for cash going forward, when compared to the post-1980 period, their importance as the benchmark for the risk - free return is likely to remain intact.

Fewer buyers for the same pool of assets makes sellers try harder, and rates on Treasuries serve as a benchmark for a wide range of other borrowing costs.

The note's yield, which serves as a benchmark for everything from U.S. mortgages to borrowing costs for municipalities, fell in November to as low as 2.3 percent and topped out at 2.41 percent.

For example, let's consider 10 % as the benchmark for the conversion rate.

These annuities use financial indexes as a benchmark for earnings.

As far as I can see, all the difficulties (so called) with predestination come about through a mistaken interpretation of a few Bible passages which are then used as the benchmark for all other verses despite the fact that these verses may be saying completely different.

The professors then together assigned a secret «base grade» for each student to serve as a benchmark for their subsequent achievement.

Duvel - Moortgat's ownership of Ommegang greatly added to its importing capabilities of its own brands, which include Duvel Ale, a 8.5 percent alcohol by volume - strong Belgian golden ale, recognized around the world as the benchmark for the style.

«French wine is one of the most sought after country - of - origin wines across North Asia, as consumers see this category as a benchmark for quality.

More than 30 years» experience in the sector of optical - electronic sorters and has a foothold in the market as a benchmark for the sector.

Prices are typically used as a benchmark for dairy importers around the world.

And once you have done that all our top players will use that as a benchmark for their negotiations!

Wouldn't Giroud's efforts at goal scoring be complemented if the Boss plays Walcott and Welbeck in rotation at center forwad where the trio could guarantee Arsenal 45 EPL goals and 60 goals in all competitions, if he set that as the benchmark for them to accomplish next season?

Cazorla's achievement should be celebrated in its own right and not used as a benchmark for other players.

It is viewed as the benchmark for modern football stadia with it's bowl design, meaning «bad seats» are difficult to come by when purchasing your Arsenal tickets.

Players like Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba and Marco Reus, just for examples, are craved by the fans for the City team as a benchmark for European success.

It is promoted as a voluntary best practice standard and has been used by a majority of school divisions as benchmarks for measuring progress of local wellness policies.

CWLA develops and disseminates the Standards of Excellence for Child Welfare Services as benchmarks for high - quality services that protect children and youth and strengthen families and neighborhoods.

The awards are widely recognised as a benchmark for the industry and the premier accolade for management in the built environment.

Health minister Rosie Winterton said the findings would act as a benchmark for future policies and help eliminate inequalities in mental health services.

Derived from self - reported statistics gathered annually by the Office of the State Comptroller, the result is a database of measures that taxpayers can use as benchmarks for evaluating local governments.

«My understanding is there's enough damage in our county and among the municipalities that it will trip the almost 2.7 million that FEMA set as a benchmark for our county so that looks good.»

The United States applauded the 2014 election and even recommended it as a benchmark for the 2015 general election because it was transparent and devoid of violence and intimidation of voters.

The United States applauded the 2014 election and even recommended it as a benchmark for the 2015 general elections because it was transparent and devoid of violence and intimidation of voters.

Workshops in areas including policy, leadership, and communications are designed to maximize each fellow's proficiency in the qualifications used as benchmarks for Senior Executive Service (SES) recruitment by the U.S. Government.

Commencing with a two - week orientation, we host a series of trainings and workshops in areas including policy, leadership, and communications designed to maximize each fellow's proficiency in the qualifications used as benchmarks for Senior Executive Service (SES) recruitment by the U.S. Government.

Science Learning Goals and Curriculum.Through its two - volume Atlas of Science Literacy as well as Benchmarks for Science Literacy and Science for All Americans, Project 2061 provides a coherent set of K - 12 learning goals that serve as a foundation for state and national science education frameworks and standards, including the Next Generation Science Standards.

«Because of the simplicity of the hydrogen atom, it acts as a benchmark for multi-electron atoms or molecules.»

It takes into account both the duration and intensity of heat waves and can serve as a benchmark for evaluating the impacts of future climate change.

Abazajian says this rules out the dark matter interpretation at a roughly five sigma level, which physicists take as the benchmark for statistical significance.

This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»

The authors used level DOK4 as their benchmark for questions that measure deeper learning, and by this standard the tests are failing utterly.

Those of us for whom Star Trek serves as a benchmark for technological progress can only bemoan the fact that hopes for faster - than - light travel to other galaxies seem to be receding at warp speed, given that we no longer even have faster - than - sound travel to France.