The best performing county was Sutton in London, where 74.7% of pupils got the government benchmark of five GCSEs, including maths and English.
Also, the average yield of DAX stocks is 3.5%, almost three times the yield on the 10-year German government benchmark bond, a factor that could persuade yield-hungry investors deterred by low returns on government bonds to switch from debt to equity.
In anticipation of big central-bank purchases of government bonds, traders sent benchmark Japanese government-bond futures up to a record Friday.
The premiums investors have to pay to hold Italian and French 10-year government debt over benchmark German Bunds rose to their highest in the euro era Thursday with signs growing that the Greek government may fall.
The yield on the benchmark government bonds added three pips pushing the 10-year yield 20 basis points above U.S. treasury debt to 2.23%.
At European stocks markets close, the yield on the government's benchmark 10-year bond was down 0. 16 percentage point at 5.86%, according to Tradeweb.
Its benchmark government bond trades at 57% of its face value, suggesting that private investors fear losses if and when a new deal is brokered.
The leafy London borough of Richmond came out as the best-performing local authority, with 87% of pupils reaching the government's benchmark of Level 4 in maths and English.
The tables show the best performing local authority is Richmond upon Thames in south London, where 87% of pupils achieve the government's benchmark of Level 4 in maths and English.
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When he was appointed last November, it was to restore Italy's credibility on international financial markets, whose mirror image is the spread between Italy's benchmark government bonds and their German equivalents.
Bill futures swooned by 11 basis points in response to the rapidly changing credit climate on Tuesday while benchmark government bond prices fell sending cash yields higher by three pips to 2.51%.
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With only about 60% of 16-year-olds currently achieving the government's benchmark of five good GCSE passes including English and maths, it is clear many young people might not have passed the EBCs, which were being presented as more demanding than the current exams.
If government debt continues to shrivel, markets can find new instruments to replace government securities as a benchmark.
Relative to that benchmark, government is now noticeably larger.
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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.
Bond prices rose sending the benchmark yield on government data lower by five basis points to 5.52%.
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Similarly, the spread of the two-year Italian government bond over the German benchmark widened to about 130 basis points today from 102 basis points a week ago and 17 at the start of the year.
Yield spreads between Greek and German ten-year government bonds (the European benchmark) widened to 252 basis points on Wednesday, while the Athens Composite Shares index fell by 2.4% in afternoon trading, with Greek banks some of the biggest decliners.
The government's 10-year benchmark bond is yielding around 5.15%, compared with the peak of 7.68% hit last July, according to Tradeweb data.
The yield on the benchmark seven-year government bond has barely budged in the past month, trading between 3.42% and 3.47%, while the usually volatile equity markets have been calmer than usual.
The spread, or the gap, of the two-year Spanish government bond over a similar German benchmark widened to 165 basis points from 129 basis points a week ago and 53 basis points at the start of the year.
"It creates a benchmark for which all international government websites can be judged on, " he added.
Holdings include U.S. Treasuries, Bank of America ( BAC) debt, FNMA Benchmark Notes, and other government and corporate debt.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond climbed to 1.0% in morning trade, the highest since April 2012.
In a sign of further volatility, the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield hit 1.0%, the highest in nearly a year.
It's certainly good to have a clear benchmark to back up the government's previous pledge that Britain will have the "best" superfast broadband in Europe by 2015.
Government corruption is a major problem, and benchmark laws on de-Baathification, oil and provincial powers have stalled over lack of consensus on what kind of country Iraq should be.
All this means that America can sensibly aim for a balance between spending cuts and higher taxes similar to the benchmark set by Britain's coalition government.
Even with the lift in equities, investors were putting their money in safe government debt, pulling down the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note to 3.14%, from 3.34% Monday.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. government issue droppped to 4.61% from 4.66% late on Tuesday.
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