It also provides us a chance to compare a web app to a web page.
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From there you can link to news on a specific ADR or choose to compare a stock price chart to one of a number of indexes (unfortunately, there's no emerging-market index).
The numbers are based on FanGraphs' projected 2012 wins above replacement (WAR), a statistic used to compare a player's value to the average Triple-A fill-in.
But one might say this is simply to compare a disastrous six months to March 2012 with an absolutely catastrophic figure for the previous six months.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
Actively-managed funds are more difficult to match and it is a little harder to compare the performance of your holdings to a true benchmark.
The result: a listening experience that can compare to a quality stereo.
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Nothing I have done in my career - getting promoted to the Premiership, playing in Europe or scoring a goal - can even compare to such a fantastic experience.
Last year, Dealbreaker, a Wall Street Web site, picked up a copy of the Principles and made fun of a section in which Dalio appeared to compare Bridgewater to a pack of hyenas feeding on a young wildebeest.
Your ploy is to compare current rates to a projection, a projection which includes several factors likely to increase in magnitude over the next 90 years.
To compare it fairly to a sales tax you need to double it, since it is on both sides of the transaction making the rate 0.70%.
Is it fair to compare a coachable, natural athlete with potential to a child whose parents had the means to expose her to a higher level of play at an earlier age?
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For example, a user will be able to compare data on a state-by-state basis and also drill down to the congressional district.
"There can be no reasonable expectation of privacy in a tweet sent around the world, " wrote the judge, who went on to compare information posted on a public network to an eyewitness's account of a crime on the street.
Whenever you purchase a gluten-free food item, compare the cost to a similar item with gluten.
Regulators say holding back a small amount of customer cash would decrease the amount of capital that firms would have to hold in reserve and compare the idea to a minimum account balance required by banks.
Investors around the world have long used ratings not just as a guide to the risk of default, but as a way to compare the riskiness of one bond with the riskiness of another.
Some visitors compare it to a Greek fishing village, others to a glamorous town on the French Riviera.
Compare that to a total of 19% in 2011, and it is a huge growth rate.
No reader of this deliciously combative book would ever compare him to a meek fawn.
Compare this to a restaurant startup, say from a talented chef who knows her food but has only limited business experience.
Compare a successful business to the federal government in its present state.
Below, I summarize the Dow returns on the day after the elections, and compare that to a typical day for the market.
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Marine conservationists compare it to a bulldozer, with the nets pulled for as far as 20km, picking up turtles, coral and anything else in their path.
So compare it to a money market: A Vanguard money fund would have earned you only 4.9% a year during the time the Merger Fund has been running.
Compare it to a museum: We don't think of ourselves as owning any of the art, so we aren't upset when it changes what's on view from its collection.
Compare a contractum trinius to a murabaha contract, a structured financial product offered by Islamic banks as a way around the Koran's proscription of riba, or usury.
"Compare it to a purely classroom-based subject, like English or history, where you can achieve greater economies of scale by packing out a lecture room, " says Prof Smith, of Swansea University.
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