And we have ratings agencies that are duty bound to value such debts on a transparent global benchmark.
Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station which is in Hawaii sets the global benchmark.
"We need a better global benchmark for crude oil than the Brent marker, " said Torbjorn Kjus, oil market analyst at DnB NOR.
Some varieties of Guatemalan coffees now cost about 70 cents more per pound than the global benchmark contract traded on IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
Plus, world trade is conducted in dollars, so long as the dollar remains the global benchmark currency, going from AAA to AA and maybe even AA- someday will unlikely impact demand for U.S. government bonds.
Overall, double-digit gains across domestic and global equity benchmark indices did not translate equally into active management, as most active managers in most categories underperformed.
This study is one more benchmark in measuring global attitudes toward gender.
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Ideally each jurisdiction will incorporate a set of broad global principles, which establish a benchmark of prudent finance.
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The risks include the bank's role in the global probe of attempts to manipulate benchmark interest rates, with Deutsche expected to reach a settlement with regulators this year.
So we should have a benchmark that better reflects the global supply and demand.
On the equity side, compared to the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets index, global emerging market equity funds were underweight, in order of less weighting, Brazil, China and Russia, and slightly overweight India up to June 11, according to EPFR Global and Barclays.
Result: Orbis Global's portfolio usually looks nothing like its benchmark, the FTSE World Total Return index.
Dated Brent is by far the most important international oil benchmark (accounting for 65% of global price points).
Deutsche Telekom's falling share price has weighed on Germany's benchmark Dax index, itself suffering from the global market meltdown.
The U.S. crude benchmark has been criticized as being disconnected from the global market, and has lost market share as a result.
For strategies that invest in a range of asset classes, such as bonds and commodities, investors and advisers should come up with a more-balanced benchmark, says Jonathan Boersma, executive director of Global Investment Performance Standards for the CFA Institute.
Oxford Economics built a unique global ranking model based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark employee diversity across countries, industries and occupations.
The outlook for global growth also got a boost after the European Central bank cuts its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 percent.
Currency-only hedge funds made a 6% loss in 2011 and a gain of just 0.8% in 2012, according to a benchmark index run by fund-of-funds manager Parker Global Strategies LLC.
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Only 23% of your Global Fund is in U.S. equities, down from your own benchmark index weighting of 40%.
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.
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