Sentences with phrase «low international benchmark»

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This unpleasant picture is presented after a third quarter in which Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, traded at about $ 50 a barrel on average, the lowest sustained levels since the financial crisis.

Brent crude, used as an international benchmark, fell as low as $ 27.67 a barrel, its lowest since 2003, before recovering slightly to trade at $ 28.17.

The lower bound of the study is an important benchmark worldwide; in 2015, the international Paris Climate Agreement set a global target of constraining warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

But whatever one thinks of NAEP's definition of proficiency, nothing in Harvey's article begins to touch on the central point of our essay: U.S. states, by committing themselves to implement Common Core State Standards, have promised to set standards benchmarked at international levels, while in fact they have put into place actual standards at diverse — and embarrassingly low — proficiency levels.

Also, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Longson said that prices for Brent crude, an international benchmark, could fall to as low as US$ 43 a barrel next year.

The decrease in the value largely reflects lower international energy prices of subsidised fuels since mid-2014, as the gap between international benchmark and end - user prices is closed by decreased international prices of energy, but it also incorporates the impact of pricing reform.

This could see the world's No 3 oil consumer cutting use further just as weak global demand and ample supply are already pushing the international Brent benchmark to multi-year lows.