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  • The benchmark's 5.9% surge for the week was its best weekly showing since last July.

    European Stocks Go 5 for 5 Simon Kennedy 2011

  • Monday's declines come on the heels of five straight weeks of gains in the S&P 500, the benchmark's longest winning streak since March 2010.

    Blue Chips Fret Again Over Greece Christian Berthelsen 2012

  • The threat of a company manipulating the benchmark was big enough in 2002 for other fields to be grouped with Brent when gauging the benchmark's price by Platts, a pricing and information service that designed the physical Brent benchmark.

    Traders Look To Brent, But Oil Benchmark Has Own Problems Sarah Kent 2011

  • BlackRock Inc.'s iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index , for example, replaces some of its benchmark's foreign shares with their related American depositary receipts, which may perform quite differently.

    New Ways To Gauge ETF Costs Eleanor Laise 2011

  • Platts adjusts for these shifts in the benchmark's makeup with its daily assessments.

    Traders Look To Brent, But Oil Benchmark Has Own Problems Sarah Kent 2011

  • LONDON—A planned shutdown due to a strike at one of Exxon Mobil Corp. 's biggest refineries in Europe could pressure front-month Brent crude futures prices, narrowing the benchmark's premium to future months, traders said.

    Exxon Refinery Shutdown Could Pressure Brent Crude Jenny Gross 2011

  • Trading volumes of the benchmark's crude futures on the IntercontinentalExchange have been steadily rising in the last year, eating into WTI's dominance.

    Oceans of Flexibility Give Brent an Edge Over WTI Sarah Kent 2012

  • Financial components on the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index led the benchmark's declines, while Bank of America Corp. was the worst-performing blue chip on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

    Financials Hit by Pessimism Chris Dieterich 2011

  • As of the end of February, Korea made up just 10% of the portfolio versus 15% for its benchmark, while Mexico accounted for 5.6%, more than the benchmark's 4.5%.

    How to Play the Emerging Markets Ben Levisohn 2011

  • They were trading 4.3% up at 48.90 rupees on the Bombay Stock Exchange in afternoon trading, outpacing the benchmark's 1.7% gain.

    Subex to Sell Activation Business Ashutosh Joshi 2011

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