benchmark
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South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index tumbled 12% around midday Wednesday with the country’s shipping stocks hammered by concerns over higher fuel costs as well as restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
By midafternoon trading, the blue-chip index and other major U.S. benchmarks had found their footing.
Brazil's central bank kept its benchmark Selic rate at 15 percent in January, for the fifth time in a row, in a bid to curb inflation which stood at 4.44 percent the same month.
From Barron's
U.S. gasoline and diesel prices also are tied to global benchmarks such as Brent.
From Barron's
Even after a run-up in crude in recent weeks, benchmark U.S. futures were trading around $76 a barrel—far below their inflation-adjusted average of roughly $96 over the past two decades.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
