NPR 2010-04-23

President Obama is telling Wall Street that sweeping change is on the way. He's pushing to overhaul the financial regulatory system and outlined that plan in New York's Cooper Union college today. Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiations on an overhaul bil

NPR 2009-6-18

President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

快口说英语031

No. 31 I'd like to pick up my dry cleaning 第三十一课 我想提取干洗的衣物 Practice Listen and Repeat A 1. The dry cleaners hangs the cloths on a hanger. 干洗店都是把衣服挂在衣架上。 2. My cloths come cleaned and pressed. 我的

经济学人:一周商业要闻14

The world this week-Business 本周经济新闻 Amazon showed off its first smartphone, which will go on sale next month. 亚马逊展示了将在下月发售的第一款智能手机。 Priced at the high end of the market, the device runs on a versi

VOA慢速英语2017--烤吐司会致癌吗？

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Many Americans have toasted bread first thing in the morning. For some, the morning meal also includes hash browned potatoes. Or later in the day, they might enjoy potato chips or crispy

Omnishambles

Callum: Hello, welcome to 6 Minute English. Im Callum and with me today is Neil. Hello Neil. Neil: Hi there Callum. Callum: In todays programme were going to be talking about the word omnishambles. Every year a committee at the Oxford English Diction

经济学人:一周商业要闻5

Business this week 一周商业要闻 In a surprise move Americas Department of Justice filed a lawsuit opposing the merger of American Airlines and US Airways, specifically because it thinks air fares would rise as a result. 美国司法部提起诉讼

经济学人:一周商业要闻4

Business this week 一周商业要闻 Britain's recovery gathered pace. 英国经济加快复苏脚步。 Industrial output grew by 1.2% year on year, the fastest rate since January 2011, with manufacturing up by 2%. 工业产出与去年同期相比增

经济学人84:花旗集团 付讫前行

Citigroup花旗集团Paying up and moving on付讫，前行The perennial basket-case of American banking at last shows signs of life数年崩溃下美国银行业终于显现生机THERE were many reasons why Citigroup's earnings for the second quarte

NYSE rejects takeover offer from Nasdaq

NEW YORK, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The New York Stock Exchange Euronext said on Sunday that its board has rejected a takeover bid from the owner of Nasdaq OMX and Intercontinental Exchange(ICE). NYSE Euronext Chairman Jan Michiel Hessels said in a statem

中国生肖设计大赛结果揭晓

The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture has recently announced the top award of a 2016 zodiac design competition for the year of Monkey goes to a 21-year old college student from Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication. Xue Jiahui named her contes

Three new European financial watchdogs start work

BRUSSELS, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- As the three new pan-European financial（金融的） watchdogs began to operate at the start of 2011, the European financial sector will usher in a new era of tough supervision. The date of Jan. 1, 2011 marks a turning

金融英语之银行英语阅读:Derivatives衍生

金融英语 A derivative is a security which derives its value fromanother underlying financial instrument， index， or otherinvestment. Derivatives are available based on theperformance of stocks， interest rates， currencyexchange rates， as

健康生活 从食物搭配开始

There has been a lot of research done on the significance of food combining when we eat. Many believe that our stomach is designed to only digest food correctly one food type at a time or eating foods together that are compatible with each other. Thi

经济学人:全球金融 下一个雷曼兄弟在哪儿?

Global finance 全球金融 Where's the next Lehman? 下一个雷曼兄弟在哪儿？ Five years after the maelstrom of September 2008, global finance is safer. But still not safe enough 五年前国际金融历经了2008年9月金融危机的冲击，

泛欧交易所将与上交所合作

PARIS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Euronext announced Monday a partnership with the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) to enhance the promotion and marketing of its cash, derivatives, commodities and index data in China. According to Euronext, the partnership wi

金融英语综合辅导之银行的业务:重点归纳

金融英语综合辅导之银行的业务:重点归纳 第一章： The Hong Kong banking system an introduction 1 第二章 Money， banking and the economy 4 第三章： The Hong Kong banking regulations-capital adequacy and liquidity ratios， t

经济学人:苏格兰财政 人心惶惶

Scottish finance 苏格兰财政 A case of the jitters 人心惶惶 As the Scottish referendum nears, capital takes fright 苏独公投逼进惊扰资金流动 BEFORE this week many investors and money managers had dismissed the possibility that Scot

经济学人517:印度教民族主义者 穿短裤的人们

India's Hindu nationalists: 印度的印度教民族主义者： Men in shorts 穿短裤的人们 The election over, Narendra Modi may drop the Hindu right 选举结束，纳伦德拉莫迪或许将限制印度教权力。 Not physical jerks 这可不是

经济学人:打扫房间与脱欧 伦敦欧元清算(2)

In 2015 it lost a court case against Britain over its attempt to force clearing to move. 在2015，它控诉英国关于试图强制清算转移的法院案件败诉了。 Many jurisdictions, the EU included, limit their financial institutions' acces