It's not his finest hour. The buck stops right there with him. The president did not meet a benchmark that he himself set for crisis leadership.

The industrial production number is the benchmark -- other surveys, while they're good, pale in comparison to the strength this indicator has.

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

That kind of decline is a perfect fit with what we've seen in the household survey's measure of employment, ... if not in February, then in future benchmark revisions.

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

Like any company, we want to make sure our associates, customers and local communities feel good about us. This research provided a benchmark to help us understand what we are doing well and where we need to improve.

You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,

Follow-through interest in select blue chips and China-related stocks drove the benchmark index up. Funds kept chasing these stocks after the market broke through the 16,000 points level.

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.