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MarketWatch
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Stock benchmarks lose 1% or more amid broad-based selling on Wall Street
Upstream Online
Nov 18
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Mexico’s government is not considering changing how it sets prices for oil
exports to the US after Saudi Aramco abandoned West Texas Intermediate as
the pricing benchmark.
Wall Street Journal
Nov 18
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Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond yield hit a one-month intraday low Wednesday as a weaker domestic stock market prompted investors to buy safe-haven assets.
The Australian
Nov 18
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BRAZILIAN miner Vale wants to start annual benchmark negotiations for 2010-11 iron ore prices this month, according to the company's global iron ore director Renato Neves.
Banking Business Review
Nov 18
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New Straits Times
Nov 13
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DOHA: Wayne Rooney would love to mark the birth of his first son with a goal against Brazil here today.
Financial Times
Nov 12
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Reign of West Texas Intermediate as the world's top oil benchmark "looks increasingly precarious" said the International Energy Agency
StreetInsider.com
Nov 12
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Mondo Visione
Nov 11
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The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announces today the results of the
semi-annual review of the OMX Copenhagen Benchmark index, (NASDAQ OMX
Copenhagen: OMXCB), which will become effective with the market open on Tuesday,
December 1, 2009.
Business Times - Singapore
Nov 10
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OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corporation (OCBC) launched a benchmark international offering of US dollar-denominated notes to institutional and sophisticated investors yesterday. These fixed-rate subordinated notes are expected to qualify as lower Tier...
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A benchmark is a proxy for a market, economy, class of equity, or sector, generally setting a standard against which the performance of a stock, bond, mutual fund, commodity, or other security is measured.
Benchmarks are also used to gauge the health of a market, sector, or entire economy.
Examples
- The S&P 500 (.SPX-E) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJIA) are often used as benchmarks for the United States economy in general. That is to say, their performance is used both to gauge the health of the economy and as a reference of comparison for the performance of a stock portfolio or mutual fund.
- The Nikkei 225 (NK225-OK) is used as a benchmark for the Japanese economy.
- The Indice Bovespa (IBOV11-BR) is used as a benchmark for the Brazilian economy.
- The TSE 300 is used as a benchmark for the Canadian economy.
- The CAC 40 (CAC40-FR) is used as a benchmark for the French economy.
- The DAX Index (DAX-XE) is used as a benchmark for the German economy.
- The Hang Seng Index (HSI-HK) is used as a benchmark for the Hong Kong economy.
- The IPC Index (IPC-MX) is used as a benchmark for the Mexican economy.
- The SSE Composite Index (SHGIDX-SH) is used as a benchmark for the Chinese economy.
- The FTSE 100 Index (UKX-LN) is used as a benchmark for the UK economy.
- The Straits Times Index - STI (STRAITS-SG) is used as a benchmark for the Singapore economy.
- The All Ordinaries Index (XAO-AU) is used as a benbhmark for the Australian economy.
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