听一分钟英文：Inflation-通货膨胀

Inflation seems to be a big issue at the moment. Every time I turn on the news there is a story about inflation. Many countries around the world are fighting to keep inflation under control. Sometimes you read about countries that lose the battle aga

纯正英语一分钟-Inflation

Inflation seems to be a big issue at the moment. Every time I turn on the news there is a story about inflation. Many countries around the world are fighting to keep inflation under control. Sometimes you read about countries that lose the battle aga

英语音频杂志：冰淇淋和银行业

Ice-cream and banking By John Kuti Russian ice-cream is great. Any shop or street seller can offer a choice of different ones for less than ten roubles, thats about 20p in British money, which I think is a fair price. They have natural fruit flavours

英文杂志-Magazine：Ice-cream and banking

Ice-cream and bankingBy John KutiRussian ice-cream is great. Any shop or street seller can offer a choice of different ones for less than ten roubles, thats about 20p in British money, which I think is a fair price. They have natural fruit flavours a

Business US Central Bank Holds Interest Rates Steady

Business US Central Bank Holds Interest Rates Steady Barry Wood The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve , Wednesday announced that it is holding short-term interest rates steady. The usual

VOA常速英语2008年-Interest Rate Hike Spells Gloom for Australian

By Phil Mercer Sydney 04 March 2008 A rate increase by Australia's central bank is putting a heavy burden on many of the nation's homeowners. Rates have been increased to more than seven percent, in a move aimed at curbing rising inflation.Phil Merce

Inflation expectation presses for rate hike

Inflation expectation presses for rate hike The possibility of an interest rates hike by China's central bank is imminent as inflationary pressure prolongs and a prudent monetary policy is in place, the China Securities Journal reported Friday. China

Public Service Workers Strike in South Africa

By Delia Robertson A one-day nationwide strike of civil service workers in South Africa has brought education to a standstill and affected many other state agencies. Tens of thousands of civil service

2007年VOA标准英语-Zimbabwe Inflation Leaps to Hyper Level

By Peta Thornycroft Harare 13 May 2007 A woman begs in a street in Harare, Zimbabwe (File) Prices of consumer goods, particularly groceries, have doubled in a month in Zimbabwe. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA that Zimbabwe shopkeepers and consumers

VOA英语2010年-China Struggles to Tackle Inflation

Chinese economic authorities have signaled that fighting rising prices will be their top priority next year. China's government set an average inflation rate target this year of 3 percent, but some economists expect the rate to top that figure. Last

新西兰英语 626 Official Cash Rate

First listen to September 15th 2011 to hear about the Official Cash Rate. Dr Bollard again kept the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 2.5%. It has been the same since 10th March 2011. He also said that economic growth until the end of March next year will

新西兰英语 57 Official Cash Rate

Today, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Alan Bollard, dropped the official cash rate by ? of 1 percent to 7.5%. This rate affects how much the banks have to pay to borrow money overnight from the Reserve Bank. If the banks pay less, they can drop

Eurozone finance ministers downplay inflation risk

BRUSSELS, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Finance ministers of eurozone countries downplayed(不予重视) inflation risk in the European single currency club on Monday, despite the recent rises due to higher oil prices. Inflation（通货膨胀） in the euro a

乌克兰央行降息至7％

KIEV, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian National Bank (NBU) decided on Friday to reduce the key interest rate by 0.5 percentage point to 7.0 percent starting from June 10, the bank's press service said. This is the first time for the central bank to c

VOA标准英语2008年-Official Zimbabwe Inflation Rate Reaches 2.2 Mi

Zimbabwe's Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono says the country's official inflation rate is now 2.2 million percent. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg. Zimbabwean foreign currency dealers conduct transactio

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2606 inflation

今天我们要学的词是 inflation. Inflation 通货膨胀。The inflation rate in Uganda has decreased to 5.1% for the fiscal year ending in July 2016. 乌干达的通货膨胀率在2016年7月结束的财政年度中下降到了5.1%. The IMF is

耶伦:或将渐进式加息

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that she expected an increase in the target range for the federal funds rate to be warranted later this year, and the pace for the rate hike would likely be grad

美联储近十年来首次加息

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided to raise benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the first interest rate increase since 2006,marking the end of an era of extraordinary easing monetary policy. Given the co

CCTV9英语新闻：Consumer prices +2.3% y-y, producer deflation eases in China

China's consumer prices rose slightly on an annual basis in April, in line with market expectations. The consumer price index edged up 2.3 percent in April from a year ago, unchanged from March. Month-on-month, prices fell 0.2 percent, the data from

新西兰英语 292 Official Cash Rate Rise

The governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, increased the official cash rate (OCR) from 2.5% to 2.75%. This is the first rise in three years. During the economic recession, Bollard reduced the OCR from 8.25% in July 2007 to 2.5% in April this yea