benchmark
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
