But using it as a benchmark, generally, to compare technology stock performance probably misses some subtleties.
As a benchmark, the 200-day simple moving average for the Dow is 10, 313 Monday morning.
The performance of the best councils will be used as a benchmark by an independent inspectorate.
The 30% figure is twice the level the UN uses as a benchmark for crisis.
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Germany is used as a benchmark as it is considered the safest bet in the eurozone.
Still, the CAC 40 index is widely used by local funds as a benchmark, Mr. Burnand said.
Libor is used as a benchmark for millions of transactions and determines some loan and mortgage rates.
"There are few areas where you don't hit Toyota as a benchmark, " says Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler's chief executive.
But it is possible to use the results achieved by charities in the same field as a benchmark.
If government debt continues to shrivel, markets can find new instruments to replace government securities as a benchmark.
As a benchmark, the doctors asked Guyton to rate her feelings of dread on a scale of 1 to 10.
As a benchmark, consider that investments growing at 4.4% will double about seven years faster than investments growing at 3.1%.
With the iPhone as a benchmark, Google developed the Android platform and won the support of highly competitive handset manufacturers.
The plant was built from scratch, using Japanese factories as a benchmark, so there weren't a lot of old habits to break.
Gapen said it also seemed reasonable to use the example of Hurricane Katrina as a benchmark for economic impact given its size.
As a benchmark this would be instantly appealing: over the past decade, multinationals have provided the best returns with the lowest volatility.
All percentages trail the Morningstar Lifetime Moderate 2050 as a benchmark.
This plan was big on reforms to boost competitiveness with the best performer to be used as a benchmark for others to emulate.
The rate-setters' fear was that inflation would persist if firms and households used today's rate as a benchmark for future wages and prices.
After all, DXJ tracks a fairly obscure (by industry benchmarking standards) WisdomTree index that is rarely, if ever, used by institutions as a benchmark.
Like other professional municipal bond investors, I use the Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Monitor (MMD) as a benchmark to make these kinds of assessments.
In this case, I looked at the MMD A Electric Power as a benchmark, since there is no MMD for BBB-rated bonds in the electric power sector.
"They've taken Singapore Airlines as a benchmark for service and British Airways as a benchmark of their financial acumen, " says Fraser Teasdale, head of a Miami airline-management firm.
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Things could have been worse: President Bush earlier this year called for a 50% reduction in earmarks, using the 13, 492 earmarks in the FY2005 budget as a benchmark.
The price of Wheaties is not enough of a shared experience, and too variable due to all sorts of extraneous factors, to be used as a benchmark for anything.
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In addition to serving as a benchmark for trillions of euros in savings and loans, the European Central Bank also uses it as a factor in its monetary-policy decisions.
Samsung wasn't quite as aggressive as its peers, but there's no denying that the 4-inch Galaxy S served as a benchmark for the entire industry, if just through sheer ubiquity.
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Because there are fees to do this, the council lowered the gold return over the time period studied and used a short-term cash rate as a benchmark for the borrowing cost.
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"This should be regarded as a benchmark ruling which applies to all web sites which make claims about the reliability of their user-created content, " the ASA's spokesman Matthew Wilson told the BBC.
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