Word: benchmarking
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...business with the Soviets because they have a reputation for making debt payments promptly, in contrast to shaky Latin American borrowers. The financiers offered Moscow an unusually good deal. Interest payments will be only one-quarter of a percentage point more than the London Interbank Offered Rate, an international benchmark that currently stands at 8.125%. The bankers are confident that they will not be criticized for giving the Soviets favorable terms. Reason: financially strapped U.S. farmers are in desperate need of boosting their grain sales to Moscow...
...their forecasts for Germany and France to only a tad in excess of 1% growth this year. Such differences create a dilemma for Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European central bank, the body that sets monetary policy for the entire euro zone. Economists say the bank's 2% benchmark interest rate is far too low for the strongest economies, providing them with plentiful cheap money and helping fuel both a credit boom and, especially in Spain, a potential housing bubble...
Even through difficult times in the market, Harvard’s performance has consistently exceeded the performance of the average fund and even Harvard’s policy portfolio, a hypothetical portfolio that Meyer has formulated as a benchmark to measure how well the actual Harvard portfolio has performed...
...came out of that race ready to take on the league,” Kummer said. “That was a benchmark week, and everyone realized...
...workers. With labor contracts for five major steel manufacturers due to expire next July, the Wheeling settlement could become a trendsetter for an industry that has grown unaccustomed to strikes. Said William T. Hogan, a steel-industry expert and an economics professor at Fordham University: "This is historic, a benchmark. The outcome will be of great importance for both the companies and the union...