benchmark
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Even so, benchmark U.S. crude futures’ 2.4% gain Monday, to $58.08 a barrel, left them trading at one of their lowest values of the year.
The Fed cut rates by a quarter percentage point at three straight meetings starting in September, bringing its benchmark rate down to a range of 3.5% to 3.75%.
From MarketWatch
If they find contamination above state benchmarks, they are required to excavate another layer of that soil and conduct additional rounds of testing.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet even though the drug met all the FDA’s previously agreed-on benchmarks, the agency rejected it this fall.
The benchmark ETF has traded below its 200-day simple moving average since late August.
From Barron's
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