The benchmark stock average eventually settled for a gain of 1.3% at 9, 965.01 by the close.
Brazil's benchmark stock market index, the Bovespa, is hovering around an alltime high, and the economy is booming.
The bullish bond market tone emanating from the report also sent shock through credit markets and caused a slump in recently rejuvenated benchmark stock indices.
Similar to low-cost index mutual funds, ETFs track segments of the market and try to match a benchmark stock or bond index rather than beat it.
The island's currency in July traded at a 14-year low against the U.S. dollar, and the benchmark stock index has lost as much as 60% since April 2000.
The benchmark stock index rose 1.4% to a record 1776.73 on Tuesday, after surging 3.4% on Monday, while Malaysia's ringgit currency gained 1.9% against the dollar in the first two trading days of the week.
Slim-controlled companies, most of them cobbled together into two main holding companies, Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, account for half of the combined market cap of Mexico's benchmark stock index, the 35-stock Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index fell to 19 year lows in early September.
The benchmark Nikkei stock index ended the morning up 3.63% at 10, 573.
At 1381 the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index, which doubled in 1999 from its 1998 Asia crisis lows, is now back down almost to crisis levels.
Still, despite the natural disaster and the strong yen, Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average finished the year down only 17.3%, a relative outperformance in an ugly year for Asian markets.
If the fund can't earn back this hurdle rate plus the category benchmark average by clever stock selection (or reduce risk significantly), you shouldn't own it.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index rose 3.2% to 8, 955.27, while the National Stock Exchange's Nifty index gained 3.1% to 2, 760.30.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
For a "hold, " StarMine gives higher scores to the analyst the more closely the stock tracks the benchmark.
The country's Sensitive Index, or Sensex, was the worst-performing major stock-market benchmark in the region in 2011, sliding 24.6%.
Thanks to a roaring stock market whose benchmark index was up 53% in the past year and a strong rupee that appreciated 12%, for the first time all Indian rich listers are billionaires.
Like its Mexican counterpart though, the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange's benchmark Bovespa index was 0.03% lower at 59, 253 points.
It requires that the stock outperform a minimum benchmark before earning a positive score, then accelerates the reward for beating or missing it.
In India, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark 30-share Sensex index was trading 436.27 points, or 4%, lower at 10, 398.05 after trading was suspended for an hour.
But using it as a benchmark, generally, to compare technology stock performance probably misses some subtleties.
Its shares ended 2.6% down at 330.50 rupees on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where the benchmark index closed 0.6% lower.
The PEG ratio also comes in at 0.60, a 40% discount to the benchmark of 1 for a fairly priced stock.
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Although a stock-picker who underperforms benchmark share-price indices will find himself out of a job, there are no benchmarks for investment consultants themselves.
Given the long-term growth projection of 19.6%, the PEG ratio comes in at 0.47, a 53.0% discount to the benchmark of 1 for a fairly priced stock.
G. and Bain, stock price was not a useful benchmark of anything in the nineteen-seventies, because the market was stagnant.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share benchmark Sensex, which had been trading flat before the rate decision, ended down 1.5%, while the yield on Indian government bonds rose to 7.90% after the announcement, from 7.86% earlier.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share benchmark Sensex, which had been trading flat before the rate decision, was 1.3% lower just before 0800 GMT while the yield on Indian government bonds rose to 7.90%, compared with 7.86% earlier.
The Mexican stock market has performed well, with the benchmark IPC index up nearly 13% in 2012 and more than 20% in the last year.
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