target

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For five years now, the Fed has missed its 2% inflation target and it’s quite clear to strategist Dimitris Valatsas that the trend is “up, up and further away” from that objective.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Citi has a buy rating and A$7.15 target on BOQ.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

I have no solution for the fraught dynamics of social media, besides perhaps throwing one’s phone in a lake, and “Yesteryear’s” target audience isn’t likely to heed that advice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Just 77% of first class letters are being delivered within one working day against a target of 93%.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

It was a seventy-minute flight to the target, a small torpedo boat base in the port town of Hon Gai.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin