时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  This week, a major finance company, Hanover Finance, announced it is in trouble. They have decided 1 to freeze all investor 2 funds. This means that people who have invested money in their company cannot take it out again at the moment. The company hopes that their problems will be temporary and in the future they will be able to pay back all investors 3’ money. But investors are worried.

This is the second finance company this week to announce it is in trouble. At the beginning of last year, there were 49 finance companies in New Zealand but now 26 of them have collapsed 4 or frozen their investments. These are not banks. They do not give the same financial protection as banks and many people have lost money. In total, $3 billion has been lost or frozen. Many of these companies offered high interest rates which means there was more risk with the investment. However, Hanover Finance seemed to be a safe company. It has experienced owners and was the third largest finance company in New Zealand with assets at over $1 billion. They have two related companies and 16,000 investors in total, with $554 million invested. Six months ago, they announced a profit of $17 million before tax.

The problems for Hanover Finance have come mostly from problems in the property market. They lent money to developers of expensive resorts in Queenstown, Taupo and an apartment block in Auckland, but these properties are not selling. This means the developers are in trouble and are late in paying back the money they borrowed.

Investors have also lost confidence in finance companies and are choosing to invest their money in other ways, maybe in banks. The global economy is also affecting money markets. Companies have to pay more to borrow money from overseas. High oil prices, high food prices, and problems in property markets in many countries have all contributed to global economic difficulties.

Vocabulary

invest / investors / investments, developers, finance / financial, freeze / frozen, collapsed, risk, assets, resorts, global, lend / lent, borrow, economy / economic



adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.投资者,投资人
  • My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
  • The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。
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
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
学英语单词
acanthoidine
adjacent line
air-breather
ambiguohypoglossal
avoking
bestower
buffer reagent
buy-and-holds
catanator
caveling
chlordan
cost-reimbursement
de-activation
Deinotherioidea
democratic values
desoxypyridoxine
dexamethasones
diameter of working disk
diatonic auxiliary note
discretamine
domain magnetization
double-layer fluorescent screen
dropper plate of free grain
Drusze
dynamicize
editon
elbow equivalent
electrode-travel motor
embraced
endomycopsis hordel
Engler viscosimeter
fairwells
fang-likest
fawns on
federal radio act 1927
fling oneself into the breach
fluoroolefin
free-taking
general staff
grinding media charge
hachi
hard-fightings
Hatsukaichi
HRST
ignition of precipitate
inverse mercator
iodine trap
jM-factor
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
kemerer
laughing-eyed
liege poustie
light-alloy armo(u)r
Longué-Jumelles
lophocoronids
Louis Henri
market chaotic
multistage linear amplifier
Narfeyri
Ngoso
octuplex
optical fiber ribbons
organised-crimes
pass in a program
pelviroentgenography
photoelectrocatalytic reactor
phrenemphraxis
polar moments of inertia
portcullised
practice range
prevelar
primordisl endoderm cells
reave
Rectocillin
residual concentration
Riemann upper integral
rifle shot
safo
saltations
screw-tap
sebiferic acid
second anchor
short-lived asset
sleight-of-hand
sniol
sound-barriers
speed change control
stalk extractor
structurality
Tharrawaw
thirst bucket
thoughted
three-dimensional imaging
throw dust in someone's eyes
transnationally
unwed mother
vel non
voiced sounds
votes down
well-customed
wharfies
wrecking