Sentences with phrase «price as a benchmark»

We use the Henry Hub spot price as a benchmark for the industry.

Tier 1 remedies use the purchase price as a benchmark.

Let's take price as our benchmark here.

Not exact matches

The chart below shows indexed month - end stock prices for each bank during their CEO's tenure, as well as the performance of a benchmark, the S&P / TSX Composite Index Financials Sector Index GICS Level 1 (STFINL):

U.S. government bonds serve as a benchmark against which other bonds are priced — especially the Canadian variety, given the close ties between the two economies.

The benchmarks the industry relies on, such as the published average wholesale price, are built on antiquated data and bear little relation to real costs.

The energy market could have a new benchmark oil price when Dubai launches its Middle East sour crude futures contract as an alternative to New York's NYMEX light crude oil futures and London's IPE Brent crude oil.

The Bank of Canada said nothing in public about the possible merits of deficit spending as it twice cut its benchmark interest rate last year to offset the collapse of oil prices.

They serve as benchmarks for the terms — just as the Kelley Blue Book sets prices for a used car or an earnings multiple is used to value a company.

Benchmark 10 - year Treasury prices dipped on Wednesday as a recovery in oil prices helped stocks move higher.

Benchmark spot gold prices were on course for an over 1 percent decline this week, pressured by a thaw in tensions on the Korean peninsula and a stronger dollar as investors looked to riskier assets such as equities.

The Shanghai oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.

The difference between Brent and a barrel of Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for oil sands product, was even more significant, a fact that had caused considerable hand wringing in downtown Calgary as well as on Parliament Hill.

The price of hot - rolled steel coil, the benchmark product, is down about 40 percent this year, with domestic mills idling as much as 38 percent of capacity after imports climbed by 38 percent in 2014.

The 10 year maturity U.S. Treasury Note (UST 10 yr) is thought to be the primary benchmark for the U.S. bond market because it has the largest issuance and is used as the basis for fixed rate mortgage pricing.

Benchmark crude prices slipped back to average about $ 45 / bbl in August, as Russia and Saudi Arabia continued to produce at record - high levels.

As such, CBOE's bitcoin futures contracts could be vulnerable to manipulation because the 4 p.m. ET Gemini auction is the sole determinant of the benchmark price.

As usual, the development of local currency sovereign bond markets has helped by providing a benchmark for pricing.

Second, given bitcoin's tremendous price volatility, it does not qualify as a numeraire — a commonly accepted benchmark used to assign value to goods and services.

Floating - rate * The coupon on a floating - rate corporate bond changes in relationship to a predetermined benchmark, such as the spread above the yield on a six - month Treasury or the price of a commodity.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.

In the last year, the spread between what a barrel of oil is worth in the Midwest (called WTI — which is usually the oil price you see on the nightly news) and what it's worth either on the Gulf Coast (LLS) or when shipped to Europe (called Brent — which is generally used as a benchmark for world prices) has widened to historic levels.

As shown in the following chart, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI)-- a benchmark for crude oil — fell early in 2016, sparking a global loss aversion shift as investors began looking for a potentially higher - yielding investment opportunitAs shown in the following chart, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI)-- a benchmark for crude oil — fell early in 2016, sparking a global loss aversion shift as investors began looking for a potentially higher - yielding investment opportunitas investors began looking for a potentially higher - yielding investment opportunity.

UNG's investment objective is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares» net asset value to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the natural gas price delivered at the Henry Hub, La., as measured by the daily changes in the benchmark futures contract minus expenses.

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.

After trading as low as US$ 27 a barrel in mid-February, the price of West Texas Intermediate, a grade of light, sweet crude used as a North American benchmark, is closing in on US$ 50 a barrel in the wake of several supply outages around the globe and renewed optimism in some quarters about a re-balancing of a previously over-supplied market.

The benchmark has been gyrating between resistance at this short - term moving average and support at the 200 - day moving average for the past three weeks, charting large intraday swings as investors attempt to find a level of comfort amongst equity prices.

Using monthly dividend - adjusted closing prices for these ETFs, along with contemporaneous data for SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) as a benchmark, during December 1998 through December 2017 (229 months), we find that:

«At this level of imports from OPEC, Middle Eastern producing nations will be watching closely as they could, in time, face pressure from their Chinese buyers to adopt this benchmark for pricing their physical crude contracts,» the cartel said in its monthly report.

Most simply, these two benchmarks serve as an easy way for financial institutions to determine the price of money.

While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.

OPEC, especially its Middle Eastern producers, will be closely watching the futures contract because once established, the Chinese reference crude price could act as a regional benchmark for negotiations of spot or term crude oil prices.

The leading non-US benchmark for oil prices reached its highest level for more than two years, as Turkey threatened to disrupt supplies from Kurdish oilfields in northern Iraq in response to the autonomous Kurdish region's referendum on independence.

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 %).

Nevertheless, US benchmarks were less volatile, as US shale oil production continued to increase in response to higher global prices, while US oil exports reached record levels.

An important determinant of a floater's performance is the underlying benchmark or the reference rate, such as year over year change in the CPI (Consumer Price Index).

Corporate borrowing rates are often priced as a spread to an interest rate benchmark.

In addition to market indexes and ETFs, the movement of stock prices of four main companies in the financial services sector — Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway and Goldman Sachs — are also sometimes utilized as benchmarks for the entire sector.

LIBOR is the most widely used reference rate globally and is commonly used as the benchmark from which bank loans, bonds and interest rate derivatives are priced.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year OFZ rose as high as 7.32 percent on Monday as the price of the bond fell.

Benchmark interest rates, such as the LIBOR and the Fed funds rate, affect the demand for money by raising or lowering the cost to borrow — in essence, money's price.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

We can argue about what an appropriate index is to benchmark returns here, but in Q1 it really didn't matter as a mixture of hype and hope pushed company share prices higher than either index.

Europe, where nearly 50 per cent of vehicles are fuelled by diesel, is home to the global benchmark for diesel prices and the biggest storage hub for the road fuel as regional refineries are unable to meet local demand.

As you can see in the table above, which looks at the price differential between the Brent global benchmark price and the West Texas Intermediate price (the amount by which North American oil prices differ from average international prices each year), the problem is that the price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.

There is also the prospect of price loss as the Federal Reserve (Fed) has started raising its benchmark lending rate amid a stronger U.S. economy (a bond's yield moves in the opposite direction of its price).

Oil and gas equities have been underperforming crude oil prices since the middle of 2017, but the outlook for energy stocks deteriorated further in the past two weeks, as major oil benchmarks have declined more than 10 per cent.

«This reality will not change even if large volumes reach tidewater for export, as the difference in price that existed over the past few years between the inter - national benchmark — Brent Crude — and North America's benchmark — West Texas Intermediate (WTI)-- which did provide a premium for tidewater access over the past few years, has now been reduced to almost nothing.»

The actual carbon pricing for all this is the same as the carbon levy benchmark, i.e. $ 10 / tonne in 2018, rising to $ 50 / tonne in 2022 (see Schedule 4 of the legislative proposal).