Word: benchmarking
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...crowd three deep is gathered around a friendlier game, the Acme Crane Company, made by Benchmark Games of Hypoluxo, Fla. It's one of those old-fashioned grab-a-prize machines, updated with a hydraulic system that raises the platform holding the prizes. Improbably, it's one of the hot games at a show that is a mix of high-tech gimmickry and homey touches like corn dogs and inflatable scarecrows to attract spectators...
...muck, the concern now is that other listed private Chinese companies will be splattered. A UBS Warburg index of 20 of these so-called "private chips" has fallen 10% since it was inaugurated in January 2001. That's far less than the 45% fall of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index. But p-chips plunged three percentage points since the Yang scandal broke. Because of the lack of transparency and secrecy among Mainland companies, "it is quite difficult to sort out which are the reliable ones and which are the crooks," says Willis Ting, executive director of Tai Fook...
Investments in foreign bonds also performed well, returning 32.4 percent against a 15.6 percent benchmark, along with absolute returns, which increased 10.2 percent against a 4 percent benchmark decline...
Real estate was the only area in which Harvard performed lower than its benchmark, with a one percent decline against a benchmark increase of 4.8 percent...
...June quarter of the fiscal year, we took harsh write downs on our own assets, and we expect assets in the benchmark to be written down in the next year,” Meyer said. “We don’t think the benchmark reflects the current market conditions, so I won’t be surprised if we catch up over the next year...