A Taiwanese electronics company says that it may spend more than $10 billion to develop factories in the United States. Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, made the announcement to reporters Thursday. In January, the company said it would build a display

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(六)月

The owner of messaging service Snapchat is preparing for the technology industrys biggest initial public offering, or IPO, since 2014. Snap Inc. recently filed for the IPO, which will allow the company to offer stock shares to the public on the New Y

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Business News 3 200 Million Dollar Mistake Our news story today is about a share trader in a Japanese bank who made perhaps the worlds most expensive typing error! 商务新闻20亿美元的错误 今天的新闻故事是关于日本一家银行的一个

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 原汁原味商务英语播客

Worlds Richest Lose $100 Billion in Week of Stock Drops U.S. stocks suffered their worst losses in years last week. Among the biggest losers were the worlds top billionaires. 美国股市上周遭遇了近年来最严重的大跌。全球最富有的亿

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Take a look at the number of Chinese companies on this years Fortune Global 500 list and its hard not to come away impressedeven a bit intimidated. Ninety-eight companies are based in China, including those headquartered in Hong Kong. That puts China

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AS IT IS 2016-01-07 $450 Million Powerball Prize Causes Frenzy 美国强力球4.5亿美元彩票头奖引起疯狂 Are you feeling lucky? The hope keeps you going. And someones gotta win. News spread early in the week that the Powerball lottery a gam

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AS IT IS 2016-06-13 New 'Budget of Change' in Nigeria 为促进经济发展,尼日利亚通过340亿美元预算 Nigeria has a federal budget following months of debate between President Muhammadu Buhari and lawmakers. Officials are calling the new $

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AS IT IS 2016-05-01 Market for Illegally-Made Goods Reaches $460 Billion 全球假冒伪劣商品价值规模达4600亿美元 A new report says as much as $461 billion was spent on counterfeit and pirated goods around the world in 2013, and that trad

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Consider that across Europe Internet sales of about one billion dollars last year are projected to reach 30 billion dollars by the year 2001. One study says that the worldwide Internet commerce activity will double, double in the next six month alone

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What movie holds the record for earning the most money worldwide? 以下哪部电影收入最高? Avatar, Titanic, Jurassic World, or Star Wars: The Force Awakens? 《阿凡达》、《泰坦尼克号》、《侏罗纪世界》或《星球大战:原力

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SINGAPORE June 30 (Reuters) - Japan will launch a tender for fighter jets as soon as mid-July the Ministry of Defence said in a deal seen worth up to $40 billion as Tokyo seeks to bolster its air defences amid creeping tension with China over dispute

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Bill Gates is no stranger to progressive thinking. The philanthropic foundation he runs with his wife, Melinda, has backed everything from longer-lasting pill-based contraception to a process whereby human waste can be converted into safe, drinkable

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century. 与用互联网连接整个世界相比,社交网站脸

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At a news conference in Riyadh on Wednesday, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal announced his plan to give away his entire fortune in the coming years. With this pledge, I am honoring my life-long commitment to what matters most helping to build a more

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A digital marketing research group said the online sales at a record high of $3.34 billion during this year's Black Friday shopping spree in the US. 数字研究市场集团Adobe Digital Insights日前声称,今年美国黑色星期五购物狂欢节

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The newest film in the Stars Wars franchise has set a box office record for an opening weekend in the US and Canada. 《星球大战》系列最新电影《原力觉醒》在美国、加拿大上映首周末就打破票房纪录。 Revenue from the o

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Britain's largest bank, HSBC, has written off $17.2 billion in bad debt after the U.S. housing market slide hit the value of its loans in 2007. The annual loss is the largest reported amongst Britain's big five mortgage lenders. 英国最大的银行汇

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In one of the biggest tech mergers of all time, Microsoft said that it's buying LinkedIn in a deal valued at $26.2 billion. 日前,在有史以来最大的一次高科技企业并购中,微软公司宣布以262亿美元的价格收购领英。 Th

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The intention of the collider was to let scientists probe the ultimate nature of matter, as it is always put, by re-creating as nearly as possible the conditions in the universe during its first ten thousand billionths of a second. The plan was to fl

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With illegal immigration a focal point of the 2016 presidential election, a new study has taken a closer look at undocumented immigrants' contributions to federal, state and local taxes. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy calculated that u

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