Of the thirty nine data points (13 x 3 years) only Large Cap Value funds beat (one time) their benchmark.
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In Asia, the Bank of Korea met expectations by cutting its benchmark interest rate for the second time this year.
India's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in three years, by half a percentage point to 8%.
South Korea's Kospi index jumped 1.2 percent to 1, 972.70 after the Bank of Korea lowered its benchmark interest rate for the first time in seven months.
Now compare that to Shanghai in the same time, Shanghai's benchmark composite index rose 130 percent.
After that date, (we) never lost a benchmark (comparison) and by the time I left, (we) had won 21 in a row.
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On Friday, the price of benchmark Chicago corn reached an all-time high after the US Department of Agriculture cut its production estimate by 17%.
But US oil prices are subdued, having lost their long-time link with the Brent crude benchmark.
He seized first place from Toyota's Jarno Trulli at the third time of asking, setting a benchmark of 1:12.353.
But with nine minutes left on the clock, Massa shaved off a little more time to eclipse Hamilton's benchmark by 0.190 secs and take top spot.
Treasuries sold off as well, with yields on benchmark 10-years hitting an all-time low below 1.4% in late July, only to move up all the way above 1.8% last week.
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While such data has been a benchmark for European-based companies for some time, we are now seeing a more global adoption and interest in this, which should be another forcing function for more corporations to act as good corporate citizens.
Tellme raised half a billion dollars from Jim Barksdale, Benchmark and all the smart Valley guys at the time.
These are being thrashed out at a time when retail-price inflation, the benchmark measure in negotiations, has risen to a 15-year high of 4.4%.
On the market front, yields on Italian benchmark 10-year sovereign bonds hit an all-time high of 6.68%, at one point registering a 490 basis point spread over German bunds.
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In his article this time, Richard tracks the Scots against the HSBC benchmark and finds them doing well.
WTI, the U.S. benchmark, has gained more than 20% in the same time frame and has clocked-in gains in seven of the last ten trading sessions.
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The minutes of the latest meeting of the bank's monetary-policy committee suggest that it will raise its benchmark interest rate in March or April, for the first time since September 2008.
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The study was produced with the University of York and the survey's co-author, Jonathan Bradshaw, said it "establishes a valuable benchmark that we can use to track changes in well-being over time".
Interestingly, the 10-year French spread to the Dutch ten-year benchmark bond has hit over 60bps according to Bloomberg, far wider than at any time in the history of the eurozone.
The Russell 2000 Index (RUT), a popular benchmark for mutual funds to track their performance against, closed at an all-time high last Wednesday, surpassing the previous high reached in July 2007.
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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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As a callow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.
Attorney Guy Neal, who represents creditors, spent a good deal of his trial time showing that for years Stockton had granted bloated labor contracts and benefits, and then allowed employees to boost their retirement benefits further by cashing out vacation time and sick leave in their last year of employment, thus raising their benchmark annual salary for retirement benefit purposes.
Yields rose on peripheral debt with that on the Spanish benchmark rising to a euro area era high while Italian yields breached 6% for the first time since 1997.
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This time around, writes Colas, all sectors moved up pretty much in lockstep with the benchmark index, expressing a much higher correlation (the trend that stocks will move up alongside external market movements, but not necessarily as a direct result of them) than usual.
The biggest star was the 30-year Treasury bond, which registered a 35% return, while the benchmark 10-year note gained 17%, with the yield finishing below 2% for the first time since at least 1977.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, a benchmark of 20 railroad, airline and shipping companies, rose 0.2%, to an all-time closing high.
At the same time, the Central Bank has taken advantage of the economy's soft patch to cut its benchmark interest rate, from 12.5% in August to 11%.
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