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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 In business, Westpac has indicated interest rates will continue to rise this year. Westpac boss Gail Kelly says the bank's funding costs are continuing to increase. And she has told a federal parliamentary inquiry 1 it's likely to be a while until they peak. The Federal Government last year announced plans to boost competition in the sector 2, including abolishing mortgage exit fees. Ms Kelly says it's unnecessary move and may in fact hurt the small players. 


 
Rio Tinto's 3.9 billion dollar takeover bid for Riversdale Mining has been given the tick of approval by the Foreign Investment Review Board. Rio has made a cash offer of 16 dollars a share for Riversdale which has coal mining operations in Africa. Riversdale has recommended its shareholders 3 accept the offer which could see Rio take full ownership of the company. 
 
And taking a check of the market numbers now: In the US, at the end of the week's trade, the Dow is up. Australian shares ended the session yesterday lower. The All Ords lost about a third of a percent. And the ASX 200 lost slightly less. Elsewhere in the region, Asian stocks were down, the Nikkei and the Hang Seng both lost more than 100 points. 
 
And let's check the currencies now, the Australian dollar is buying almost 99 US cents.

1 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
2 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
3 shareholders
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
学英语单词
abscess of sclera
additional fuel
Allis' sign
artophorion
automatic gear gauge
back-rake
be necessary to
beer barrel
bellows camera
Bercianos
bias crosstalk
boese
captive bolt
car repair facilities
catalyst spraying
channel integrity
chicken yards
clusterfuck
common whipping
control
cowfishes
cupric oleate
digital tape
ease nature
ecotechnologies
effective strength
eireanns
Eldama Ravine
experimental aerodonetics
external priority discipline
Fick's equation
flares up
floating-rate
gigga
gunmetals
Gunn amplifier
Hilbert-Schmidt expansion theorem
horizontal synchronizing device
internal defect
Ivancice
jankauskas
Juojarvi
kammenar
kop (kick-off point)
Larouco, Sa.do
laydays
localization of industry
lymphonodi submandibulares
mains unit
man at the wheel
mangole
measurement-system data handling
Meconopsis paniculata
meiosis zygotene stage
Merecure Viejo
micro-rhythm
middle-clicked
moisture-laden air
mud trap
mull something over
musulman
myns
neutral variation
nutation drive
oligophylicidine
ozonophore
pandurated
pedestal wash basin
peliosis
pelvic inflammatory disease
phyllostomidaes
polypnoea
post-injury
pseudohypersensitivity
pudding-grass
Ranunculus banguoensis
re-imburse
read access time
regeneration connection
revelations
Rubus grandipaniculatus
salty dog
shape-righting
sheet gauge
simulation of logic array
skewed storage
sne
sodium tetrabromphenolphthalein
Spessart
string tape
synchro clutch
techs
ties of matter
time limit for a project
timmiella anomala
transient overvoltage
treddle
trilobum
unlusthead
urethral gonorrhea
vinhos verdes
Woolpit