The International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its forecast of China's 2016 GDP growth by 0.1% to 6.6% last Tuesday. 国际货币基金组织上周二将其对中国2016年国内生产总值(GDP)增速的预期上调0.1%至6.6%。 In its latest update

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(五)月

Finance and Economics;The world economy;Mountains to climb 财经;世界经济;任重而道远 August was a nerve-racking month for the world economy. September and October will be no better 对世界经济来说,八月是伤脑筋的一个月

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Global debt sales reached a record this year, led by companies gorging on cheap borrowing costs that are now threatened by Donald Trumps pledge to fire up the US economy. 今年全球债务发售达到了创纪录的水平,主要发债方是那些积

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

The U.S. governments credit rating could be downgraded even further, according to the rating agency that removed the United States from a list of top-tier creditworthy nations. Standard and Poors judgement Days after Standard and Poors made headlines

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BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Given the changes to its economy and financial market, China's monetary policy will maintain a certain degree of looseness in the coming months, but prudence will feature more prominently than last year. Positive signs a

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(246) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

But that narrative is being challenged now 然而,这个故事现在遇到了挑战 because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years. 因为非洲大陆在过去两年内一直表现不佳。 It had been growing at five percent p

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we turn to an issue that had been expected to move through Congress this year, immigration reform, but which has instead become stalled.Ray Suarez has our report. RAY SUAREZ: Thousands of fans cheered on Los Tigres del Norte, in En

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KWAME HOLMAN: Detroit declared bankruptcy today, the largest American city ever to do so. The city's state-appointed emergency manager made the filing with a federal judge. It would let him liquidate assets in a bid to pay off creditors and city pens

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The euro zone 欧元区 That sinking feeling (again) 那种再次下沉的感觉 If Germany, France and Italy cannot find a way to refloat Europe's economy, the euro may yet be doomed 如果德国、法国和意大利找不到办法重振欧洲经济,

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With CPPCC members 与全国政协委员讨论 The premier responded to a report that Chinese tourists to Japan often buy toilet seat lids to bring home. He called for an open attitude to the trend and for the acceleration of the upgrading of the dom

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MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Sluggish growth and spillovers of the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to scale back its economic stimulus are expected to feature prominently in discussions at the upcoming leaders' summit of Group of 20 or G20, said Russian o

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BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday lowered its prediction for China's economic growth to 8.2 percent in 2012 and 8.5 percent in 2013, although a bank official said a hard landing is unlikely. The ADB made the re

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VIENNA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and Vice-President of the European Parliament Othmar Karas called for a convention to discuss the future of the European Union (EU) Monday. The convention

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Where there was discord, Donald Trump has remarkably brought harmony. 哪里有不和谐之处,唐纳德.特朗普(Donald Trump)便引人注目地带来了和谐。 He has brought peace between the markets and Janet Yellen, as traders at last appea

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世博会正式开园,园内有不少独立展馆。顾名思义,独立展馆即单独设管的意思。比如说古巴,以往都是与其他拉美国家合用一个展馆,而在此次的上海世博会上,首次设立独立的展馆。那么

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WASHINGTON, March 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday announced that he has ordered the military to beef up the missile defense system by deploying 14 additional ground- based interceptors. At a Pentagon press briefing, Hagel

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Top German court approves ESM BERLIN, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Federal Constitutional Court of Germany approved the ratification of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Wednesday, paving the way for the permanent bailout fund and other crisis-battling

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The current-account deficits in the euro zone's crisis countries were of the worrying kind. That they have shrunk or reversed is comforting. 欧元区危机国家的经常账户赤字是属于让人担心的那一种。他们的赤字已有收缩,趋

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FRANKFURT, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese economy is healthy and has great potential for further development, a leading German economist has said. In the macroeconomic sense, the Chinese economy is still extremely healthy if one looks at the growth

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TOKYO, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Thursday set a new goal of reducing the ratio of Japan's public debt to gross domestic product from fiscal 2021, but the feasibility of the target remained unclear amid ballooning social security

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