benchmark
Example Sentences
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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
At the center of the supply squeeze in the Middle East, traders are paying an eye-watering $160 a barrel for the Emirati oil that can dodge the Strait of Hormuz, far above those global benchmarks.
Oil prices have soared since the war began, with the price of a barrel of international benchmark Brent crude surging by more than 40 percent.
From Barron's
Digital asset prices got a boost even as benchmark oil futures rose early in the session.
From Barron's
However, that advance only brought the benchmark back to levels seen late last week, and it remains more than halfway toward correction territory, having fallen 5.7% from its record high in late January.
From Barron's
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