Word: benchmarking
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...here we are: The 10-year Treasury bond, which is Wall Street's favorite gauge of long-term interest rates, hit 4.343% on Tuesday while the two-year Treasury bill, a benchmark for short rates, hit 4.347%. Put aside the fact that this inversion is minuscule, and had evaporated by mid-day Wednesday. Inversion is inversion, and this unwholesome circumstance has occurred before every recession in the last 40 years. The logic is simple. Bond traders push long-term yields unusually low when they feel that short-term rates are unusually high and will choke off business borrowing and crush...
Managers at HMC receive a base salary of $400,000 and a bonus that is tied to how their portfolio performs relative to a benchmark measuring market performance. The system also includes a "clawback" provision, which withholds part of the earnings dependent on future returns...
...size problem became evident in the '90s, investors began shifting to index funds, where good ideas don't matter. Index funds buy all stocks in a benchmark like the S&P 500 or any of hundreds of others. They guarantee market-matching returns, are hugely popular and make sense for most people. That makes the heady growth at American Funds all the more noteworthy: the company offers not a single index fund, dismissing them as vehicles for guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more...
...disputes one of the bank's key arguments: that the current abnormally high inflation rate of 2.5%, driven in part by oil prices of over $60 bbl., will spark demands for higher wages that will set off a cycle of price increases. ECB officials point out that their benchmark interest rate of 2% is less than inflation and that high oil prices are probably here to stay. They're also keen to fire a shot at governments in France, Germany and elsewhere that have allowed budget deficits to soar. "I won't lean out of the window and shout that...
Mark Davies, Betfair's international-marketing director, acknowledges the firm is caught in a bind, especially in the all-important U.S. market. And outside shareholders, including venture-capital firms Benchmark and Index Ventures, are growing impatient. But for the moment, the firm is betting that virtue will bring its own reward--in Australia if not in the U.S. Last month the government of the Australian island of Tasmania said it will allow online-betting exchanges, opening the door for Betfair to a huge market that it had resisted tapping illegally...