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Meyer added that if HMC fails to meet its benchmark this year-"a realistic possibility"-investor compensation would drop "dramatically...
...provide some comparison, the S&P 500 Index, a commonly used benchmark of stock performance, has increased by 18 percent since the beginning of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 10 percent...
...endowment reached an all-time high of $13 billion in June after five consecutive years of higher-than-expected growth. The 10 percent loss of endowment value from June to September was 3 percentage points below HMC's benchmark, its internal goal for that period of time...
This vision is embraced by the individual investors (many of them trading online) who have driven Amazon's stock beyond any established benchmark of price-to-revenues. But many analysts and institutional investors view the stock as overpriced and believe the company faces a tangle of challenges. Its principal foe, Barnes & Noble, recently purchased the Ingram Book Group, the largest U.S. wholesaler to book retailers, including Amazon. This follows Barnes & Noble's sale of 50% of its website operations to giant publisher Bertelsmann AG, creating a potent synergy. Meanwhile, nine other major Web retailers, including CDnow and eToys, recently banded...
...13th, the temple of Solomon was destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam the apple on the 13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...