Sentences with phrase «other benchmarks around»

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And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

While cities shouldn't change based solely on Amazon's wishes, many saw the experience as a way to benchmark themselves against other similar - sized cities around the country and see where they might be falling short.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

Goals around increasing the numbers of teachers in mathematics, science, special education and other hard - to - staff subjects were dismissed as weak because they included no steps for achieving them or benchmarks by which progress could be measured.

However, it's what the RS does between those two benchmarks, specifically around that other great benchmark, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, that really takes your breath away: its lap time of 6:56.4 is 14 seconds faster than the AMG GT R's and just 9 seconds shy of the GT2 RS, which has 177bhp and 206 lb ft more at its disposal.

You might love watching automakers chase each other's best times around Germany's Nürburgring, or you might think that running production cars around the roughly 13 - mile circuit is nothing but an irrelevant battle for bragging rights, but there's no denying that the «Ring is an international performance - testing benchmark.

In the Sunspider Javascript runtime benchmark, the Xoom was in the same ballpark as other tablets released around the same time, but bested only the BlackBerry PlayBook and HTC Flyer.

IB's benchmark for each currency is the reference rate around which our credit, debit, stock - loan, and other interest rate linked calculations are determined.

«The yield on that same benchmark is now about 60 basis points higher — around 2.60 or so — and that's maybe looking a little more attractive relative to other investment opportunities.

Basically, this is the benchmark that banks use to determine how much to lend each other and it's an important factor in setting interest rates around the world.

«1 We measure percent citations in high impact journals and benchmark this against other cancer centres around the world.

This ruling will serve as benchmark for other similar cases around the country.

In Antutu benchmark scores, it gets around 26,000 in our testing, which is well below where other phones in the price range are.

Since I got to spend only a few minutes with the unit, of the other things, I could only note that the boot - up time is around 15 seconds, but could not run any benchmarks.

The only other thing the first ever SM - J400F benchmark listing reveals is Android 8.0 Oreo software, already running on the pre-release prototype that was able to score around 1800 points and a little over 600 for Geekbench multi-core and single - core performance respectively.