To be fair, the Barclays Capital High Yield benchmark is not fully replicable.
For start-ups, LinkedIn not only provides a high valuation benchmark, it also now will be flush with cash and a new major acquirer, Covert said.
There is one respect in which Mr Cable is wielding something of a stick, which is that he wants a prohibition on executives of one company sitting on the remuneration committees of another company: he thinks that high pay is institutionalised by the presence on these remuneration committees of executives with an interest in keeping the pay benchmark as high as possible.
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For now, the benchmark is quite high and there is lots of competition.
Six months of intensive work, endless cold calls to find clients, and a high all-or-nothing benchmark of client money to get under management by the end of the program.
Flip through the pages of any financial publication and you will likely see several ads by mutual fund companies touting their superior relative historical performance and high ranking amongst their peer group and benchmark.
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The industry benchmark projections for Europe remain high.
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However, the benchmark rate has fallen from a high of 2.06 percent reached March 11 as demand for low-risk assets increases.
The oil, from producers in western Canada, is gooey, acidic and high in sulfur--harder to refine than benchmark West Texas Intermediate (light, sweet) crude.
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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Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, set a technological benchmark today with the release of its new Razer DeathStalker Ultimate gaming keyboard, featuring Razer's award-winning Switchblade User Interface (UI).
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In a recent debate in the House of Lords, he argued for a benchmark, though perhaps not one as high as the biblical tithe, to give the wealthy some idea of what was appropriate.
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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%.
Neffenger's tests employed VolanoMark, a 100% Pure Java server benchmark characterized by long-lasting network connections and high thread counts.
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Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
We also got rid of ETFs with high expense ratios or a history of tracking errors relative to their benchmark.
Since its inception in 1998, the fund's investor share class has returned a compound 5.7%, versus 5.9% for its benchmark, Lehman Brothers' U.S. Corporate High-Yield Index.
The benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond climbed to an intraday high of 101.88 rupees from 101.64 rupees before the data.
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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For high-yield bonds, this is often calculated at 50 bps over the benchmark rate.
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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%.
At present, the benchmark lending rate stands at 6%, which is still very high compared to the rates in the U.S. and other developed countries.
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Brazil's benchmark stock market index, the Bovespa, is hovering around an alltime high, and the economy is booming.
"The conflicts of interest with Hewitt and Aon put EnnisKnupp's clients at high risk, " declares Edward Siedle, a former federal securities regulator who now heads Benchmark Financial Services, an Ocean Ridge, Fla. firm that investigates institutional money manager abuses and also helps in selection.
Upgrading my Trinity-powered HTPC is also high on my to-do list, and will give me a chance to do some benchmark comparisons, since switching the OS will be the only variable on that machine.
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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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The Russell 2000, a widely watched benchmark for small-cap stocks, fell 2.3%, extending its drop from a recent high in March to more than 10%, a retreat commonly known as a correction.
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Designed for measuring the gaming performance of everything from tablets and notebooks to high-end desktop gaming systems, the next 3DMark for Windows will be the world's first unified graphics benchmark allowing testing of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 capable hardware through the DirectX 11 API.
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