benchmark
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The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield pared earlier gains after Warsh’s comments, closing at 4.474%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Longer-term interest rates, such as mortgages and business loans, don’t always decline when the Fed reduces its benchmark short-term rate.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
Antitrust enforcers said the companies worked to rig the benchmark price from 2022 to 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
The benchmark KBW bank index is up nearly 130% over the past three years, with more than half of those gains coming from the Liberation Day tariffs selloff.
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Vocabulary lists containing benchmark
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