时间:2019-01-26 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2006年


英语课

A wild week on Wall Street has come to an end. Oil prices continue to shatter records. Let's check in with Valerie Morris, she has the details on oil and how the markets fare today. Hi, Valerie.

Hi there, Marissa. You use the word "wild" that is really quite appropriate. Oil prices are closing at another record high, but this really isn't the kind of record that consumers or investors 1 like to see. Light sweet crude settled at $77.03 a barrel and it neared $78 at one point during the day. One trader says that this is the greatest risk the oil market has seen since the embargo 2 of the seventies. Now the reason: a combination of geopolitical tensions. The conflict between Israel and Lebanon has escalated 3. And even though neither country is an oil producer, they both lie in the heart of the Middle East which pumps nearly one-third of the world's oil. There's fear that the fighting could spread to Iran. And that's not all. Attacks on pipelines 4 in Nigeria, which is the world's eighth largest exporter, have ignited fresh supply concerns. And of course when the price of oil rises, the price of gasoline is sure to follow. Experts say for a, to look for a big jump at the pump over the next few days. Checking on the closing numbers on Wall Street, as you see a picture of the Big Board, the Dow Industrials are posting triple digit 5 losses for the third straight day, closing down 106 points. The Dow has lost a whopping 351 points this week alone and the NASDAQ Composite fell nearly one percent. Marissa?

Well, oil obviously has been the focus this week on Wall Street but we've also reached the start of yet another corporate 6 earning season, so any great reports to kind of propel the markets?

I hate to be disappointing on this one but unfortunately no good news there either. Eh, General Electric. General Electric, often considered as a proxy 7 for the whole market, posted a 4% increase in profits, now that was right in line with Wall Street estimates, but investors were still unimpressed. GE stock dropped nearly 2%, also wane 8, unexpected declines in retail 9 sales and consumer confidence that fueled worries of a slowing economy. Marissa.

So GE down, retail stocks down, but what about PETCO which jumped to what, more than 40 percent today. Great if you happen to hold that stock.

Absolutely, you know, this is the second biggest pet supply chain and it is bucking 10 the downward trend and they are doing it big time. PETCO agreed to be bought by a private investment group, in a deal that's worth 1.6 billion dollars. Shareholders 11 are getting a 45% premium 12 over yesterday's closing price. I think I should end on that good news, Marissa, that's a wrap-up (I think we should.) of today on Wall Street. Have a good weekend.

Thank you,you too ,we'll see you next week.

-----------------------------------------------------------
shatter:to break something suddenly into a lot of small pieces 打破
fare:used for saying how well or how badly someone does something 进展
light sweet crude :轻低硫原油
geopolitical:地理政治学的
proxy:someone who has the authority to do something for you,especially to vote 代理人
wane:become weaker or less important 亏损,衰退



n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
  • The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级,演变成了一场同警察的混战。
管道( pipeline的名词复数 ); 输油管道; 在考虑(或规划、准备) 中; 在酿中
  • The oil is carried to the oil refinery by pipelines. 石油通过输油管输送到炼油厂。
  • The oil carried in pipelines. 石油用管道输送。
n.零到九的阿拉伯数字,手指,脚趾
  • Her telephone number differs from mine by one digit.她的电话号码和我的只差一个数字。
  • Many animals have five digits.许多动物有5趾。
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
n.代理权,代表权;(对代理人的)委托书;代理人
  • You may appoint a proxy to vote for you.你可以委托他人代你投票。
  • We enclose a form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting.我们附上委任年度大会代表的表格。
n.衰微,亏缺,变弱;v.变小,亏缺,呈下弦
  • The moon is on the wane.月亮渐亏。
  • Her enthusiasm for him was beginning to wane.她对他的热情在开始减退。
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的现在分词 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • a bucking bronco in the rodeo 牛仔竞技表演中一匹弓背跳跃的野马
  • That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin's gut. 那就是说咱们要背这一袋袋的谷子,得把五脏都累坏。 来自辞典例句
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
n.加付款;赠品;adj.高级的;售价高的
  • You have to pay a premium for express delivery.寄快递你得付额外费用。
  • Fresh water was at a premium after the reservoir was contaminated.在水库被污染之后,清水便因稀而贵了。
学英语单词
accelerographs
aerial photo coverage
ajs
Alice chess
amplitude of the interfacial wave
arabiyat
aural surgery
automatically controlled rolling mill
backpropagation algorithm
bangs out
Bourlaw.
break the neck of
broken clouds
bushveld
case of negligence
centralized processor
cercospora erythrinicola
chalion
chuey
church keys
coccidiida
cold plasma
conchectomy
congenital aplastic anemia
convex head valve
cyanobenzoic acid
data set reference number
Davidsohn's sign
double-head tyre
drop-out current
ecdyses
enard b.
end-caps
facies inferior
failure probability analysis
fall dandelions
fall-block
fine gauge
flow-rate impulse
formic aldehyde
frostproof fire extinguisher
get free
glibs
Grady County
green taxes
guardar
in the mill
infinite distributive
intensifyings
is in full swing
ischio-pubic region
Jinningian
Josef Albers
kalamkaris
layoffs
littoral vegetation zone
lord loughborough i.
Mari El Republic
material waterproofing
Mazowieckie
Mount Lorne
mountain degu
Multimedia over Coax
n-b-c
nollah-nollah
Oracle Files Online
ordering information
oscillating disk method
paint nozzle
passing by
pimping
power servo
pressure evacuation test
Primula oreodoxa
radio tube performance chart
radio-positioning mobile station
Raiskii spark generator
ran-and-gun team
recorder motor
remained
restitutes
rotating field transformer
secondary plant substance
shackle insulator
shared slot
shell-and-auger boring
sink differences
sleep the sleep of the just
sodium p-aminobenzenesulfonate
thrombophlebitides
turbine type rotary intersection
unaccomplished
uncertain evidence
unrelaxed
valve differential
vand
variable multivibrator
video accelerator
water supply works
water temperature sensor
WinMark
Zungaria