Sentences with phrase «as the benchmark from»

LIBOR is the most widely used reference rate globally and is commonly used as the benchmark from which bank loans, bonds and interest rate derivatives are priced.

We use that as a benchmark from experience.

Not exact matches

Ideally, it would have the power to defuse risks without first having to seek permission from a politician, just as the Bank of Canada sets the benchmark interest rate without input from finance minister.

As someone on Twitter joked, Benchmark has quickly gone from turning a blind eye to the side eye.

When medals deviate from benchmarks, there's usually a reason: a new approach to sports management, or structural issues (such as team rebuilding), or simply more available cash.

Benchmark wheat futures traded in Chicago jumped more than 30 percent from April 25 to July 5 as drought on the northern U.S. Plains ravaged spring varieties.

The ride - hailing company is in exclusive talks to line up funding from four investors, but a deal, which could reach as much as $ 12 billion, hangs on the outcome of a courtroom brawl between Travis Kalanick and Benchmark.

As the enduring spread between WTI and the global Brent benchmark shows, global demand growth is coming entirely from emerging markets.

Osteryoung suggests that you look for resources in your industry, such as the annual statement studies on small and mid-sized business financial benchmarks from Risk Management Associates, to help you determine whether your profit margin is on target.

In Japan, stocks have now entered bear market territory, as the benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 3.7 % to be down over 20 % from its high last June.

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

The Shanghai oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.

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.

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.

The surveys and benchmark data are supplemented by input from the Compensation Committee's outside consultant on factors such as recent market trends.

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.

As part of the performance management process, using feedback that draws from multiple sources (i.e., 360 ° feedback) can yield useful information to establish a benchmark in terms of behaviours and skills.

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.

It's also been recognized as an excellent, low - cost new lead driver; according to our Marketing Benchmarks report, companies that increase blogging from 3 - 5x / month to just 6 - 8x / month almost double their leads.

It stems from the fact that PAF allocates much of its portfolio to South Korea — a country our MSCI benchmark doesn't classify as developed, but which is classified as such by some other indexes and the IMF.

«From our optics, if you define cyber as data collection, storage, security, analysis, threat intelligence, operations and dissemination, then the $ 1 trillion market forecast from Cybersecurity Ventures barely scratches the surface» says Jeremy King, President at Benchmark Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm focused on cyber, national, and corporate securFrom our optics, if you define cyber as data collection, storage, security, analysis, threat intelligence, operations and dissemination, then the $ 1 trillion market forecast from Cybersecurity Ventures barely scratches the surface» says Jeremy King, President at Benchmark Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm focused on cyber, national, and corporate securfrom Cybersecurity Ventures barely scratches the surface» says Jeremy King, President at Benchmark Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm focused on cyber, national, and corporate security.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

stock benchmarks close out Friday little changed as investors express muted enthusiasm following strong corporate results, even from some of the market's biggest and most influential companies.

The flight from the U.S. intensified after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased its benchmark interest rate earlier this month, creating an impression among some investors that other big producers of commodities, such as Norway and Canada, would follow suit.

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.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

RBC's housing affordability measure for the benchmark detached bungalow in Canada's largest cities in the second quarter of 2014 is as follows: Vancouver 81.8 (down 0.3 percentage points from the previous quarter); Toronto 55.9 (down 0.2 percentage points); Montreal 37.3 (down 1.6 percentage points); Ottawa 36.0 (down 0.4 percentage points); Calgary 33.6 (down 0.8 percentage points); Edmonton 31.7 (down 1.1 percentage points).

Hortonworks, backed by venture capitalists including Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton, completed its own IPO on Dec. 12 and is a week away from reporting its first quarterly results as a public company.

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 %.

(Side note: There are still major brush fires, of course, such as a court hearing today in Delaware, where Kalanick is fending off a continuing lawsuit from one of Uber's biggest investors, Benchmark.)

As a benchmark, anywhere from 3 % — 7 % keyword density is acceptable, but anything over that strays into spam territory.

As a benchmark, anywhere from 3 % — 7 % keyword density is acceptable.

They then state that their performance is «satisfactory» as long as it does not deviate much from that benchmark.

As Canada's «big six» lenders hike their five - year posted and prime rates, that criteria benchmark is slated to get steeper, increasing to 5.14 per cent from 4.99 upon news of the Bank of Canada's January rate hike.

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.

«At this level of imports from OPEC, Middle Eastern producing nations will be watching closely as they could, in time, face pressure from their Chinese buyers to adopt this benchmark for pricing their physical crude contracts,» the cartel said in its monthly report.

To date, the company has raised more than $ 8 billion from a number of investors, including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

The leading non-US benchmark for oil prices reached its highest level for more than two years, as Turkey threatened to disrupt supplies from Kurdish oilfields in northern Iraq in response to the autonomous Kurdish region's referendum on independence.

To do so, GOBankingRates compared survey responses to key retirement savings benchmarks based on a savings rate of 5 percent of income and checkpoints sourced from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, as well as Census Bureau data on median incomes by age range.

The number of possible benchmarks that investors or analysts can choose from is extensive, especially for a sector as large and as critical to overall market performance as the financial services sector.

«We have investors ready to acquire these shares as soon as we receive communication from Benchmark that they are willing to withdraw their lawsuit and sell a minimum of 75 percent of their holdings,» they wrote.

Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz, and Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Tren Griffin draws out the fundamental lessons from their ideas and experiences.

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.

Banks still face numerous headwinds, including high legal costs as regulators and investigators work through a backlog of industry activity and scrutinize everything from overseas hiring to potential manipulation of currency and interest - rate benchmarks.

As you can see in the table above, which looks at the price differential between the Brent global benchmark price and the West Texas Intermediate price (the amount by which North American oil prices differ from average international prices each year), the problem is that the price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.

In the immediate aftermath of the suit, Benchmark is facing a sharp backlash from founders who are concerned that the firm is not as supportive of founders as all firms stylize themselves to be.

CMIT is looking for people who want to build a business that grows larger year after year, and to encourage franchise partners to continue to build, our royalty percentage declines from 6 % to 0 each year as benchmarks are achieved.

There's no benchmark for creating something from nothing... it's not as if God created the earth and went «Hmm... it's not mature unless I throw in the fake bones of fake creatures because that's how all mature planets are set up and I don't want anyone to do a compare / contrast.»

As the only comprehensive report benchmarking the organic industry in Australia, it can't exist without input from businesses.