Sentences with phrase «points over benchmark»

A company with the lowest of the four investment grade ratings - Baa in Moody's rating system and a BBB from S&P - can borrow at an average of 3.6 percent points over benchmark treasury.

Not exact matches

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

Historically, the Fed has responded to recession by cutting rates substantially, with the benchmark funds rate falling by 400 basis points or more in the context of downturns over the past two generations.

China's benchmark 10 - year government bond yield traded just shy of 4 percent in early December, up almost 100 basis points over the course of 2017.

The Chinese indices trade mixed, with the Shanghai Composite erasing early gains to now trades -0.30 % lower at 3,142 points while the Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index is up over 0.40 % at 22,050.

While floaters may be linked to almost any benchmark and pay interest based on a variety of formulas, the most basic type pays a coupon equal to some widely followed interest rate or a change in a given index over a defined time period, such as the year - over-year change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), plus a fixed spread in basis points (1bp = 1/100 of 1 % or.01 %).

The 15 top out - performers among actively - managed mutual funds in China over the past three years a beat benchmarks by an average 15 percentage points, more than double the level in the U.S., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The Senegalese frontman has started the Toffees» past two games against Leicester City and Arsenal and pointed to the 2 - 1 win over the Foxes as the benchmark to return to winning ways and build a run of results.

The Index's return was driven mainly by Technology which gained over 10 % and drove 220 basis points (bps) of the benchmark's 230 bps total return.

Over the last 10 years, the mutual fund's tracking error has amounted to a mere 0.09 % annually, and since its inception in 1999, the fund has returned 5.15 %, three basis points more than its benchmark index.

But there would have been some significant variance along the way: how about 2.3 % basis points underperformance of the S&P / TSX 60 compared with the FTSE benchmark in 2003, or the 2.4 % outperformance of the MSCI index over its FTSE counterpart in 2010?

In the notes following the performance charts contained herein for each of our Funds, we have always gone to great pains to point out the inherent inconsistency of equity returns, particularly in comparison to benchmark indices over shorter term measurement periods.

Meanwhile the spread between it and the benchmark 10 year Treasury (T10) held in the 210 -220 basis point range over the last six weeks.

As I pointed out in a recent column, 87.47 percent of all managed funds failed to beat their benchmarks over the last ten years, according to a research report from Standard and Poor's.

I always make it a point to highlight my disdain for leveraged ETFs as an «investment» since they tend to lose value over time regardless of the performance of the underlying benchmark given the value decay from daily rebalancing.

And because HXT's management fee is just 0.07 % (with a rebate of two basis points over the last 12 months), it can deliver the returns of its benchmark index with a trivial cost of $ 6 or $ 7 annually for every $ 10,000 invested.

Raising the average ENERGY STAR score across entire portfolio of benchmarked buildings to 91, a two - point increase over 2016.

Over time, the survey has evolved into a «firm - forward» resource with budgeting, technology purchasing, trending data, and service provider satisfaction data firms themselves increasingly use for benchmarking and as an important data point of their competitive intelligence strategy.

A maximum brightness of just over 200 lux is the only high point revealed in our benchmarks.

Our usual set of benchmarks (below) certainly point to some big performance gains, but here's the most important thing: Hardly anything I threw at the Pro over a week of testing managed to trip it up.

While we already knew the iMac Pro will be the fastest Mac ever, at least until Apple releases its promised modular Mac Pro at some point in the future, now we have an idea of just how fast the desktop workhorse will truly be.YouTube reviewers Marques Brownlee and Jonathan Morrison have each shared hands - on videos of the iMac Pro, and put its CPU performance to the test with benchmarks on Geekbench, which simulates real - world workload scenarios.In both videos, the mid-range iMac Pro with a 10 - core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor recorded a multi-core score of just over 37,400, which is up to 45 percent faster than the high - end 2013 Mac Pro's average multi-core score of 25,747.

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.

Acer's Aspire V15 Nitro Black Edition, the most relevant competitor, is slower in the single - core test but wins the multi-core benchmark by over 1,000 points.

Even so, the Zenfone 2 took over the benchmark ranks by scoring no less than 50,401 points.

In any case, the CPU is paired with 2 GB of RAM out of which roughly 1.6 GB are available to the user, and while running Android Oreo the device was able to score nearly 2,000 points in the Geekbench single - core test as well as a little over 3,800 points in the multi-core benchmark.

Long - term interest rates rose by well over 50 basis points in the last months of 2016, as the yield on the benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds took off after the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election.