benchmark
Example Sentences
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The small-cap benchmark has been a canary in a coal mine ahead of U.S. recessions, but one also prone to dying of natural causes.
The benchmark has also yet to reclaim its 200-day moving average of 6624 points, a level it breached for the first time in more than a year last Friday.
From Barron's
And using 1958 prices as a benchmark isn’t a serious way to judge value—it is nostalgia posing as analysis.
“In June, since we did not have an opinion on Alphabet, we went neutral to the benchmark,” she said.
From MarketWatch
The Bank moves its benchmark rate up and down in order to keep UK inflation - the rate at which prices are increasing - at or near 2%.
From BBC
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