The benchmark index jumped 113.3 points to 5,791.0, making a rise of 133.6 points on the week, or 2.4 per cent.

A low or negative information ratio indicates the manager made decisions that added to portfolio volatility, while also returning less than the benchmark index.

The benchmark index went up by more than 8% on buying that dealers said was driven by institutions.

Over five years, its 92.3% total return outstripped the benchmark index, which returned 61.8% over the same period.

In the space of five weeks, the benchmark index dropped nearly 13 per cent and that day alone saw 60 billion wiped from its value.

Once one of the big three miners agrees terms with one of the leading steel producers, this becomes the benchmark price for all other buyers.

Traders use the benchmark price as a guide for spot trading and trading in commodity futures.

It also treats all competitors equally in the calculation of the benchmark price.

Benchmark prices fell by 4 per cent, adding to a headache for investors in the big mining groups, which had been expecting special payouts.

Investigators will try to establish whether individual traders personally benefited by attempting to fix benchmark prices.

The benchmark rate, which stands at -0.65 per cent, has been in negative territory for the best part of eight years.

The bank's board voted 5-2 to cut its benchmark rate by a half-point as it responded to concerns about faltering global trade and confidence.

The benchmark rate for one-year loans will be raised by 0.25 of a percentage point to 6.56 per cent from tomorrow, the central bank announced.

Regulators are debating whether any governments should take a role in administering a benchmark rate.

They can now offer up to 120% of the benchmark rate, a step towards what many savers would see as liberation.

Benchmark tests should be intro-duced in place of mocks, in case exams cannot take place, it recommends.

One review noted that after waiting over three hours for a single text file to be imported, all similar benchmark tests were abandoned.

This may involve evaluating the construct being developed analytically against some predefined criteria or performing some benchmark tests with the prototype.

Computer manufacturers are known to configure their systems to give unrealistically high performance on benchmark tests that are not replicated in real usage.

In benchmark tests their students were always among the best.

They established a common benchmark, allowing developers to unambiguously compare their algorithms, and provided an overview of the state-of-the-art in fingerprint recognition.

Teachers use criterion-referenced tests, teacher-made tests, common benchmark assessments, portfolios, and observations to assess student performance.

Over the course of human history, however, first for convenience and then for necessity, standards of measurement evolved so that communities would have certain common benchmarks.

But, for the inaugural award, it was important to establish a benchmark.

Students hoping to study at middle and lower-ranking universities will also benefit from a separate late change to the rules, which could establish a benchmark fee of 7,500.

This helped to establish a benchmark for the highest ethical standards in the domestic coin trade.

The results of all participants are pooled together to establish a benchmark score.

Designed to reduce the calculation time aggregate engineers need to optimize quarry operations and to establish a benchmark by which future changes and results can be compared.

Victory for any of them would set a new financial benchmark.

A second investigation would be begun over the control and governance of traders involved in helping to provide information used to set financial benchmarks.

Since then, manipulation of financial benchmarks has been made a criminal offence to clear the matter up.

The study found that six unnamed banks remained ignorant of the fact that their trading data could be used to influence key financial benchmarks.

Affordable housing needs can be addressed through public policy instruments that focus on the demand side of the market, programs that help households reach financial benchmarks that make housing affordable.

This falls far short of the common industry benchmark of answering eight out of ten calls within 20 seconds.

Analysts forecast a 5.8 per cent rise in like-for-like sales, the industry benchmark.

The group's total property return was 8 per cent, substantially ahead of the industry benchmark of 3 per cent.

The plumbing training facilities are recognised as a national industry benchmark including a plumbing sandpit, simulated house stations and an advanced gas training laboratory.

Known for its reliability, the 153 was an industry benchmark until the 1980s.

Its net asset value - a key benchmark for property - has jumped by 11.5 per cent to 11.29 a share.

The traders also allegedly explained that this information was shared before key benchmark rates were set.

It achieved all four, including hitting a key benchmark of a 10 per cent return on capital.

It left key benchmark interest rates unchanged and vowed to carry on with its €60 billion-a-month stimulus programme.

The listed property company said that its net asset value - a key benchmark for property companies - had jumped by 9.5 per cent to 272p a share.

However, the final today will provide a benchmark of his improvement and how far he has come.

This will provide a benchmark against which changes in ocean currents, the melting of ice-caps, or volcanic processes can be clearly shown.

If nothing else, the old guard, novelists with half a dozen novels under their belt, provides a benchmark, a guarantee of quality, ballast even.

It helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a benchmark or point of reference for assessing current processes.

Gospel texts (many the subject of heated exegetical dispute) provided the benchmarks against which individuals and their actions were to be judged.

He'd set the benchmark, and nobody was matching it.

Set a benchmark for standards that will probably never be surpassed.

The limitations can easily be fixed, and when these have been addressed the series will once again set the benchmark for golf video games.

Not only would it make a profit on its stake, but also a 30p-plus exit price would set a benchmark for its own valuation.

It didn't just set a benchmark for responding to the haka.