Sentences with phrase «key benchmarks of»

The power point is fully animated to show how an angle spins around from 0 degrees, passing the key benchmarks of 90, 180 and 270.

Cboe Global Markets has announced plans to expand its suite of product offerings tied to S&P Dow Jones Indices with the planned launch of options on the ten S&P Select Sector Indices that comprise the S&P 500 Index, a key benchmark of the U.S. equities market.

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In 2009, Canada ranked 24th out of 35 countries in granting university degrees in science and engineering, a key benchmark for innovation.

For all the hoopla surrounding the digital economy and virtual businesses, the success of many ventures still hinges on serious capital outlay; indeed, a recent benchmark report by the Business Development Bank of Canada identifies «significant» investment in fixed assets as a key variable that helps mid-size companies grow into large ones.

Headquarters: San Francisco CEO: Travis Kalanick Year Founded: 2009 Number of Employees: N / A Funding: $ 37 million (latest round) Key Investors: Benchmark Capital, Jeff Bezos, Menlo Ventures and Goldman Sachs

Many believe that key to the success of the benchmark is convincing a country like Saudi Arabia to participate.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note hit the key psychological level of 3 percent Tuesday for the first time since January 2014.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday ordered Citibank to pay $ 425 million to settle charges including attempted manipulation and false reporting of several key currency - valuation benchmarks.

Key backer Benchmark Capital sues Kalanick over allocation of board seats.

It's a jaw - dropping new benchmark for cheap range in an electric car, and it's just one of several surprises Tesla had in store as it handed over the keys to its first 30 customers.

Knowing the ADTV of an equity is also important because it establishes a benchmark from which to spot key volume spikes that are the footprint of institutional accumulation.

After several days of encouraging price action, the NASDAQ Composite edged back above key resistance of its 20 and 50 - day moving averages, while the benchmark S&P 500 simultaneously marginally rallied to a fresh all - time high.

Mark Bornstein, VP of Content Marketing for ON24, will be revealing the results of the ON24 Webinar Benchmarks Report which highlights key statistics and best practices to promote and deliver more effective webinars.

The overarching research objectives of the National Financial Capability Study were to benchmark key indicators of financial capability and evaluate how these indicators vary with underlying demographic, behavioral, attitudinal and financial literacy characteristics.

Losers: One of the keys to stock picking is recognizing that over periods of time, two of three stocks will underperform their benchmark.

To get a better understanding of the dynamics, let's look at some of the key features of crude oil, benchmarks and the fundamentals that drive the commodity.

In addition, 70 percent of RIAs agree insurance is key to a holistic financial plan, but only 25 percent of RIAs offer clients a range of insurance products, according to the «RIA Insurance Planning Benchmarking Survey.»

On the daily chart of S&P 500 SPDR ($ SPY), a popular ETF proxy for the benchmark S&P 500 Index, we have annotated the key resistance levels to pay attention to this week:

Indian Central Bank under the new Governor cut the key benchmark lending rate by 25 bpts to a record low of 6.25 %.

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 benchmark S&P 500 Index closed right at the edge of two key technical support levels yesterday, and a breakdown below that pivotal convergence of support levels in today's session could easily lead to a sharp move lower in the near - term.

The surging rates in the money markets also hammered stocks, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite falling below the key level of 2000 to 1991.25, its weakest in almost six months and down 5.9 % this year, the worst performer in Asia.

Achieve the adoption of responsible palm oil production practices by key players in the supply chain through developing and sharing a credible and verifiable benchmark, and creating and promoting innovations.

The Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that strives to achieve the adoption of responsible palm oil production practices by key players in the supply chain through developing and sharing a credible and verifiable benchmark that builds upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and creating and promoting innovations.

The Accountability Framework, an initiative being developed by a coalition of leading environmental and social organisations (including the Rainforest Alliance), will provide a clear pathway for companies on the sustainability journey — including key milestones and benchmarks to evaluate their progress.

As part of this effort, President Barack Obama established the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop and implement an inter-agency plan that details a coordinated strategy, identifies key benchmarks, and outlines an action plan to end the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.

Both one - house budget bills included some form of the database, which would track the companies getting tax breaks or other benefits, the number of jobs expected, and whether key benchmarks are being met.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has, in a surprise move, cut its key benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points from 25.5 per cent to 23.5 per cent, citing downward trends in inflation.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

Hosted by Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — a partner in the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and publisher of key resources such as Science for All Americans, Benchmarks for Science Literacy, and the Atlas of Science Literacy — this workshop is a unique opportunity to tap into a set of tools, resources, and strategies that can help you meet the challenges of NGSS implementation.

Jung's device hit a number of key benchmarks.

He considers the new findings a key step toward his eventual goal of capturing that cross talk with a benchmark assay that measures the health of a person's immune defenses at the systems level.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission conducts stock assessments of 23 key coastal fish stocks, and completed a major benchmark stock assessment for river herring in May 2012.

Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory toxicology case studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental toxicology.

Our search for these key benchmarks against which brown dwarf and exoplanet atmosphere models are tested has yielded the largest number of discoveries to date.

In addition to acting as a benchmark for your strength gains, knowing your one - rep max with multiple lifts is a key to workouts that require a specific set of exercises and reps at a certain percentage of your personal max.

The benchmarking process I use, starts with mastering the Front Squat technique where the athletes have to check all the key points required to perform a Front Squat properly and then progress to a percentage of bodyweight.

Yet, in terms of formal educational credentials — the key variable that they use to benchmark teachers» wages against «comparable» workers — teacher quality has never been higher!

This measurement system is meant to establish a student's progress in each of several key learning - skills areas, demonstrating how and when students meet benchmarks in workplace - skills development as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

This engaging webinar details administrators» confidence in these platforms, benchmarks key data obstacles, and highlights the hidden costs of subpar analytics.

«Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment» is a conceptual framework for K - 12 teachers that provides key concepts drawn from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Benchmarks for Science Literacy; essential questions to engage students; and a rich assortment of sample activities.

One of the key features that create these peculiarities is retirement eligibility rules that disproportionately reward the attainment of certain service benchmarks, such as «25 - and - out» rules that encourage teachers to remain in the classroom for 25 years and then retire immediately thereafter.

A key legislative committee moved Wednesday to soften a cap on funding of the Class Size Reduction program tied to a 2008 participation benchmark.

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Kevin Courtney, head of the National Union of Teachers, said a majority of teachers questioned the validity of Progress 8, as they believed the Key Stage 2 results used to provide children's prior attainment did not provide a reliable benchmark from which to measure.

The Texas Retirement System Board of Trustees had scheduled action during its April meeting to lower the pension fund's assumed investment return rate — a key financial benchmark in evaluating the health of the pension fund — from the current 8 percent.

Those making expected progress and exceeding expected progress is likely to meet national benchmarks for most groups... As a result of discussions in March, leaders have made changes to expectations for Key Stage 1 with increased average point score (APS) achievement set as an expectation for all pupils.

At the end of Key Stage 2, 78 % of Leicester's pupils reached the benchmark Level 4 against a national average of 80 %.

SREB's benchmarking team distilled key elements of SREB state's accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act into interactive profiles at Insights.SREB.org.