时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 And it's been a good session on Wall Street. The Dow Jones has closed 336 points higher. The Nasdaq gained 81 points. The S&P500 was up 36 points on the close. And in London the FTSE closed 55 points higher. 


 
Checking commodity prices. West Texas Crude is trading at US$97.41 a barrel. Tapis crude’s at US$114.89 a barrel. And gold’s at US$1,614.05 five cents an ounce. The Australian dollar is just over one dollar US, 76 euro cents and 64 pence sterling 1.
 
For more on today's finance--David Bethany. He is a markets columnist 2 for the Australian Financial Review. He joins us now from Sydney. David, good morning.
 
Morning, Michael.
 
We had the release of those RBA minutes yesterday and the board members made very clear they had deep concern about the potential on-going impacts of the European situation.
 
Yeah, what really the, the vote to cut interest rates this month is really a vote of no confidence in Europe’s ability to deal with its own crisis. It’s a, no matter what Europe does now, I mean, the outlook is that they, that rage will be in recession next year. And that’s weighing heavily on the Reserve Bank and I mean obviously we have flown through a fix. We’ve already seen that in China. And so that was a main driver of the bank section.

1 sterling
adj.英币的(纯粹的,货真价实的);n.英国货币(英镑)
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率?
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺,这有助于减轻通胀压力。
2 columnist
n.专栏作家
  • The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
  • She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。
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accumulation model
aircraft axes
anderson-brinkman- morel state
angular table
arbitrage in stock
at the stage of being
attuiting
automization, automisation
be fine for
bearing saddle bore
beat meter
beautifieth
BIDEC
blade passing noise
bryocoris (bryocoris) gracilis
bursting disc
Camellia acutiperulata
Cancellation Advice
casinolike
check lamp
Coelogyne nitida
complete irreducible variety
confrontation states
convex sequence
Coogoon
cratering effect
cunning linguists
dendrobium loddigesii rolfe
diazobenzoic acid
dual program status vector
eriochrome red B
explorable
fan cut
fatigue of metal
filtrate nitrituria
first-generation industrial robot
Gallochrome
graph load
Huang Min-lon reduction
hydrocortisone a ceponate
incognizant
indented V-belt
ineger
inferior rectuss
ingvar
intramedullary tumor of spinal cord
irresponsively
kerfuffling
Lamotte's drops
Leucosceptrum
light leak
line station
local deflection
low speed balancing
marcopoloes
Meliosma callicarpifolia
mendelievich
mine lighting
multipath algorithm
myelomeningocele
narrow-pulse sampling
nervilia alishanensis
net debtor country
neurocytology
notice of loss or damage
numerical indicator tube
on nights
Open Relay Behavior-modification System
Osmanthus delavayi
outside money
parallel slit
Passaic River
pentagonal structure
periegesis
potentiometric stripping analyzer
price control of export commodities
process of learning
propeller-hull vortex
public records
purified tuberculin
Puritan (work) ethic
qifen,qi tier
relationss
renucleating
rhizopogonaceaes
run hot
run pipe
safer-sexes
shopfitting
sound isolation requirement
south sea islandss
spirament
staminodia
strata externum
succus pancreaticus
swalewe
swallow ... whole
tabularizing
Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine
wood-cuts
yield process
zombying out