澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-04-01
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年
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And now time for business news at the world markets.
In Europe, closed a couple of hours ago London's FETE 100 without 26 points, the Tax was also up. In the US trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is down 65 points, the S&P 500 is up 5 points. And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 1 dollar and 4 cents US this morning, it can also buy nearly 65 British pence 1 and 1.27 Newzealand.
The Spanish government has announced 35 billion dollars was off cuts in the measure austerity push. Among the measures including the country's budget incredited in the country's budget, a freezing public salaries and increasing taxes for large companies. Spain's unemployment rate is the highest in the EU and the deputy 2 prime 3 minister says the country is in an extreme situation.
Meanwhile the 17 eurozone countries will pull up, put up 640 billion dollars in fresh money to help countries with debt troubles. The funding was confirmed at a meeting of eurozone finance 4 ministers in Denmark. Eurozone now possesses a one trillion dollar financial firewood that could help put to end its two year old debt crisis 5. It's unlucky, however, to come to sense large countries like Spain or Italy would collapse 6 deeply running into trouble.
1 pence
n.便士；名词penny的复数形式
- She counted out fifteen pence and passed it to the salesgirl.她数出15个便士交给女店员。
- These apples are selling at 40 pence a kilo.这些苹果售价每公斤40便士。
2 deputy
n.代理人，代表，副职；adj.代理的，副的
- John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间，约翰将代理我的职务。
- She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。
3 prime
adj.首要的，主要的；最好的，第一流的
- The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
- He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
4 finance
n.财务管理，财政，金融，财源，资金
- She is an expert in finance.她是一名财政专家。
- A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.一家信贷公司出价买下了整个公司。