Sentences with phrase «other benchmarks on»

Not exact matches

You have to stay on top of what others in your category or industry are doing and benchmark against them.

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.

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.

On the other end of the benchmark, Swedish packaging company BillerudKorsnas fell 4.7 percent by the end of Friday after a profit warning.

But don't base your gift on benchmarks like that, or what others are giving or the couple's cost per guest, said Glantz.

«It strengthens the hand of investors in other price - fixing cases based on benchmarks that were reached in collaborative, or outright collusive, arrangements,» said Lawrence White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Benchmark partner Peter Fenton says he was attracted to a product that seemed easier to use and less expensive than others on the market.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

On the other hand, the benchmark S&P 500 rallied to a fresh all - time high yesterday, as higher volume confirmed the move as well.

Other Fed officials, however, have been on record as stating that the U.S. economy is strong enough to weather — and indeed should weather — another benchmark rate increase, certainly by the end of this year.

For example, an interest rate swap is a derivative whereby two parties exchange, or «swap,» interest payments on a bond; one side might get a constant 3 percent each payment period, while the other gets the LIBOR rate (a benchmark rate that some banks charge each other for short - term loans).

The Benchmark team reached out to other investors, and got supporters from Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital and Lowercase Capital to sign on, before calling Kalanick to give him the news.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Others argue that Benchmark's suit has thrown lighter fluid on an already fragile working relationship, and is yet another example of greedy investors looking out for their bottom line instead of the founder's vision.

So far, interest rates on other kinds of consumer debt are not on the rise, since they are often tied to the Bank of Canada's benchmark rate, still sitting near a record low.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

Banks and other financial companies slumped as investors speculated that the global economic uncertainty caused by Britain's decision to leave the EU will prompt the Federal Reserve to hold off on raising its benchmark interest rate.

It has also been revealed that the other big banks are also, to approximately the same extent, relying on the same benchmark for their assessments.

The Fed's go - to move is tweaking its target for the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge one another for loans and the benchmark for our rates on mortgages, credit cards and other debts, as well as savings accounts, CDs and Treasury bonds.

Fewer buyers for the same pool of assets makes sellers try harder, and rates on Treasuries serve as a benchmark for a wide range of other borrowing costs.

Friday was a generally flat day on Wall Street, with the Dow finishing up just 19 points and other major benchmarks ending mixed.

But by the time stock trading had ended, the Dow Jones industrial average was down modestly, and the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note, a benchmark for mortgages and other loans, was up only slightly.

Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.

Self - impose a moratorium on polls about religion for a sufficient period that the savings could be used to conduct a high quality poll with a high response rate in order to have a benchmark against which to compare other results.

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This report presents the agri benchmark network's perspectives on recent global beef and sheep developments, analysing how competitive Australian beef and sheepmeat producers are and the main areas where our productivity differs from other countries».

In addition to the expert instruction, Fine Vintage prides itself on offering an array of exceptional wines at all courses, to show students benchmark examples, a major point of differentiation between them and other schools.

The authors gathered numbers from 15 organizations and used them to derive the Return On Investment of many different practices and provide benchmarks for other organizations to use when measuring their own campaigns» effectiveness.

The income benchmark on spousal visas was always different to other anti-immigration rules.

Not only did they work to provide a necessary service to their community; but also, their participation in the awards program sheds light on their stellar projects which other communities can now use as a benchmark.»

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.

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.

Truth be told, I'm not really a competitive person (my friends may disagree here), as I tend to be focused on holding myself to my own benchmarks, not those set by others.

I did my homework early on to get a benchmark for what to charge for my services, based on other professionals.

The search options too aren't as efficient as those available on other sites such as Millionaire Match, which sets a benchmark in the industry.

1 is a benchmark indie title and an inspirational achievement for others to take note on and follow.

Presentation is often a very striking aspect to users and other stakeholders, and benchmarks can be set to ensure that the pitch «looks» good year on year.

And the old «percent proficient» metric caused schools to focus on the «bubble kids» — those right below the proficiency benchmark — while ignoring others.

Now everyone's data is shared and projected on screen after the benchmark assessments, and teachers come together to draw strengths from each other as they reflect on the data.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on teaching, the number and level of courses they teach, and how the teaching workload is distributed, among other questions.

Instead of comparing students to each other, based on arbitrary timetables, students can be compared against performance standards and benchmarks.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

From the other side of the political spectrum, Harvard's Caroline Hoxby, a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education, has also proposed benchmarking against NAEP, with the added wrinkle that states with tougher standards would receive extensions of the deadlines in NCLB.

If state laws put any other condition on a teacher's eligibility for tenure, it is usually a record of satisfactory evaluations, a benchmark that all but a tiny fraction of teachers meet.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

Creates college and career readiness indicators for high school recognizing multiple pathways for students, including measuring dual enrollment, performance on national assessments that exceeds a college - ready benchmark, and earning industry recognized credentials, among others.

No standardized local interim, benchmark, predictive, formative, or other such tests, including those embedded in commercial on - line curricula.

The council would, among other tasks, evaluate the effectiveness of the common - core assessments; help set performance - level benchmarks for cross-state tests; provide professional development for teachers and the public on how to use different tests; and develop and study policies and protocols to protect students» privacy while allowing the use of assessment data for research.

For example, using the Baseball Card, which is an ad - hoc reporting tool available in ADMS and Unify, we can look at how students performed on high - stakes tests, district benchmark assessments, and other measures including the SAT, reading comprehension, and course grades.