澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-12-20
时间：2018-12-19 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2015年
It was a rocky day on the Australian share market as investors 1 re-evaluated the fallout from the first US interest rate rise in near a decade. By the close, the All Ordinaries Index managed to gain of about 0.1% as did the ASX 200 Index. The major miners were down as commodity prices kept falling. Kapcharge dropped nearly 5% as fund managers sold out the company. Seven West Media was among the best performers. Across the region, it is a negative session after Japan's Central Bank kept interest rates on hold. Spot gold prices are pushing higher. Crude oil prices slipped another 1.9% in the US overnight. And a surging the US dollar overnight sent other major currencies lower including the Australian dollar. But it is recovering a little now to 71.37 US cents. Australians are paying substantially less income tax than a decade ago even as bracket creep gradually erodes 3 previous cuts. Economists 4 at Canberra University's NATSEM unit found that households are around 31.5 billion dollars better off since 2004 and 2005 due to tax cuts that they would have been if tax brackets were simply index to inflation. The findings show that the effects of bracket creep have been more than erased 5 by the income tax cuts over the past decade. The report also shows the bracket creep is unlikely to erode 2 these gains over the next four years.
- 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
- Once exposed,soil is quickly eroded by wind and rain.一旦暴露在外，土壤很快就会被风雨侵蚀。
- Competition in the financial marketplace has eroded profits.金融市场的竞争降低了利润。
- The sea erodes the rock. 海水侵蚀岩石。
- The sea erodes the land. 海洋侵蚀陆地。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》