Sentences with phrase «as a benchmark with»

In Scotland's case, this has always operated using England as a benchmark with adjustment for Scotland's higher needs, entrenched since 1978 in the funding model known as the Barnett Formula which aims to provide a high degree of stability in funding.

I developed a dating «protocol,» a set of standards that I followed and used as a benchmark with my dates.

Not exact matches

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

Johnson says the study, conducted by Leger, will be repeated in future years, with 2014 serving as a benchmark.

As the ability of Unifor and UAW to set industry benchmarks diminished along with the Detroit Three's workforces, though, Toyota began paying wages markedly below union rates in certain U.S. regions, notes Kristin Dziczek, director of the Center for Automotive Research's labour group.

As all major US indexes plummeted into correction territory — with the benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst week in more than two years — share buybacks stood at a standstill as companies sat paralyzed with feaAs all major US indexes plummeted into correction territory — with the benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst week in more than two years — share buybacks stood at a standstill as companies sat paralyzed with feaas companies sat paralyzed with fear.

With regard to setting executive compensation, boards may need not just detailed information about performance, but also information about industry benchmarks as well as information about what a given CEO's other employment options are.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the US benchmark, has gained 11 % this year as Russia along with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries continue to cut their production.

We do a lot of internal benchmarking as well as external benchmarking with our competition.

The letter comes as Benchmark has entered a high - profile legal battle with Uber's former CEO.

Organizations should continuously define clear company and department - level goals and track their attainment, as well as set clear and measurable KPIs and assess them regularly, benchmarking them with industry standards.

The central bank stuck with its benchmark interest rate of 1.25 per cent Wednesday as it continued along a careful process of determining the appropriate juncture for its next hike.

He said regulatory confusion and delays in Canada have prevented the timely completion of pipeline projects such as the Trans Mountain expansion, leading to difficulty in getting crude oil to markets and the current steeper - than - usual discounts being paid for Canadian oilsands crude compared with benchmark New York - traded oil.

The central bank stuck with its benchmark rate of 1.25 per cent last month as it continued its careful process of determining the best juncture for its next hike.

As with Telus, CI also decided to negotiate an exclusivity deal with AT&T, subject to certain performance benchmarks.

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

Asset Management also has continued to deliver solid investment performance with over 76 % of its long - term strategies outperforming their respective benchmark on a 3, 5 and 10 - year basis (as of August 2011).

The company is debuting with $ 6.25 million in new funding from Benchmark Capital, led by Uber and early OpenTable investor Bill Gurley, as revealed first to Fortune.

Some on the board have assumed that Benchmark will drop the lawsuit as part of the funding deal with SoftBank.

The price of hot - rolled steel coil, the benchmark product, is down about 40 percent this year, with domestic mills idling as much as 38 percent of capacity after imports climbed by 38 percent in 2014.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

Along with devaluing the currency by 1.86 %, the most since 1994, the PBoC announced that it would modify the way it set the reference rate, known as «central parity», that determines the RMB's trading band, and it would so so «for the purpose of enhancing the market - orientation and benchmark status of central parity».

The deal would seem to obviate the need to restrain Kalanick with a lawsuit, but sources said that Benchmark has not unconditionally agreed to drop their legal claims as part of a grand bargain.

Xiaomi's listing plans come as the company and its investors look to capitalize on a bull run for the Hong Kong market, with the benchmark Hang Seng Index rising about 27 percent over the past year.

China's bond yields climbed, with the benchmark 10 - year yield rising as high as 3.346 percent on Friday from 3.233 percent on Thursday.

The top three US equity benchmarks closed mixed with the Dow slipping as IBM plunged 7.5 per cent after it reported narrower profit margins in the first quarter and no revenue growth unless one factors in help from a weak US dollar.

He currently serves as DT Investment Partner's Chief Investment Strategist, where he is responsible for identifying and implementing tactical investment opportunities in line with strategic benchmarks.

We provide institutional - quality investment services, directly connected to your financial plan and in line with strategic benchmarks... as a truly independent advisor, our investment decisions are made purely in your best interests.

According to our latest research, as reported in Technology Content Marketing 2017: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends — North America, sponsored by IDG and IDG Enterprise, 64 % of technology marketers say their organization's overall content marketing approach is much more or somewhat more successful compared with one year ago; 92 % of those marketers attribute that success primarily to doing a better job with content creation.

In fact, as 2016 entered the home stretch, the DJIA was running neck and neck with the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 Index, but pulled away from its two rival benchmarks during the post-election rally in the equity markets.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

I'm pleased to share with you that our China Region Fund (USCOX) beat its benchmark, the Hang Seng Composite Index (HSCI), by an impressive margin for the one - year, three - year and five - year periods, as of August 1.

It tilts smaller than our benchmark, with less of a value focus, and it makes a lot of sector bets, especially as it heavily underweights financials in favor of industrials, consumer cyclicals, and tech.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

As a result, many actively managed funds struggle to keep up with their benchmarks.

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.

As the focus shifted back from policymakers to earnings, U.S. stocks were essentially unchanged on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 index down just 0.03 %.

«With their own sizable investment portfolios, most public companies could use their power as shareholders to urge public companies and asset managers to take a relentlessly long - term focus... That may mean using performance benchmarks over three -, five - and even 10 - year periods, in addition to shorter period benchmarks.»

As you can see in Figure 1.1, the Family Office Benchmark Survey responses varied more than the California family office segment in the size of these investments but the majority was in line with the California group.

Using weekly dividend - adjusted returns for HSGFX during 11/21/00 (the earliest available) through 7/26/13 (660 weekly returns), along with contemporaneous weekly returns for the S&P 500 Index and the Russell 2000 Index as benchmarks, we find that: Keep Reading

The stock market had a relatively quiet day on Thursday, with major benchmarks inching higher as investors continued to believe in the long - term prospects for the U.S. economy.

Floating - rate loans have yields and volatility similar to high - yield corporate bonds, with one major difference: As their name indicates, their interest rates «float,» adjusting periodically based on a benchmark rate, typically the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).

As benchmarks, we consider both buying and holding SPY (Buy - and - Hold) and trading SPY with crash protection based on the 10 - month simple moving average of the S&P 500 Index (SMA10).

The iShares MSCI Canada Index ETF (NYSE: EWC) has confirmed investor optimism in the Canadian economy, with shares rising almost 10 % year - to - date, easily outpacing the S&P 500 — considered herein as a benchmark of U.S. economic performance.

Using monthly dividend - adjusted closing prices for these ETFs, along with contemporaneous data for SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) as a benchmark, during December 1998 through December 2017 (229 months), we find that:

Ask yourself how these nontraditional options will bring you closer to your business goals Because Zeppos knows that her business can not rely on barter as a principal source of revenue, she sets a benchmark amount that can be sold that year with barter.

The Saudi stock benchmark advanced to the highest since 2015 last week before FTSE Russell said it's classifying the country as a secondary emerging market, with actual inclusion set to happen in stages starting a year from now.

As yields have fallen, duration, or rate sensitivity, has risen, meaning that the risk associated with a change in rates has generally risen for most bond benchmarks and traditional funds.

For all the pump priming we have endured with successive rounds of QE, the benchmark 10 year bond currently yields 2.37 % as I write.