NPR 2009-02-21

To say stock market investors are pessimistic as the week winds down would be something of an understatement. All three of the major stock market indexes ended the session lower today. The fresh bear market lows followed remarks from Senate Banking

最In导购口语 第29期:优惠折扣

导购口语: Prices have up to twenty percent off. Do not miss the chance. 8折优惠，不要错过机会。 We give you a discount of 20% since we're renewing our inventory. 我们因为在出清存货，所以商品八折出售。 Opening sales a

高油价导致穷人生活更困难

High Gas Prices Hit Rural Poor Hardest 高油价导致穷人生活更困难 Gasoline prices across the globe have dropped over the course of the last two months -- from what were record highs in the w

中国房地产过剩不会影响到大城市

China's housing market is recovering, but unevenly. First-tier cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, have seen a real estate boom in the first two months of the year, with housing inventory dropping after the government issued a series of

房地产或迎短暂调整期 商品房销售有望创新高

China's housing sales are expected to reach a record high in 2016, though the growth of real estate investment may slow, said a report by a research group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 中国社会科学院一个研究小组近日发布的

国庆前后国内多地出台楼市调控政策

Beijing and 19 other cities across China launched cooling measures in the past week to rein in housing prices, with more cities to follow suit, analysts said. 分析人士称，过去的一周里，北京等20个国内城市已陆续出台降温措施控

VOA标准英语2008年-US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals ar

The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gave his assessment of econom

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Lower Oil Price Helps Consumers But Market Volatility Remains In recent months, crude oil prices have experienced their sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis, and now stand at around $80 a barrel. Alongside one of the main highways leading in

VOA常速英语2007-Cocoa Industry Meeting Aims to Help Impoverished

By Phillip Wellman Dakar 02 October 2007 Cocoa buyers, sellers, producers and other industry stakeholders are meeting this week in Accra, Ghana to discuss the future of cocoa business. In West Africa, where millions depend on the trade for their live

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—油价虽然走低 市场动荡依旧

In recent months, crude oil prices have experienced their sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis, and now stand at around $80 a barrel. 近几个月，原油价格经历了2008年金融危机以来最深的跌幅，现在保持在每桶80美元左

VOA双语新闻：澳中矿业及钢铁谈判仍处于僵局

Australian miners and Chinese buyers have missed an annual deadline to set benchmark iron ore prices, signaling the end of a 42-year-old system and risking new friction between the major trading partners. 澳大利亚矿主和中国买主错过了就设

2015年CRI Are Consumers Truly Benefiting from ＂Double Eleven＂?

Single's Day itself developed here in China in the mid-1990's as a sort of an anti-Valentine's Day, with young single people using November 11th, or 1-1-1-1 on a digital calendar, to treat themselves to gifts. But in 2009, Alibaba took the first step

我国新一轮'猪周期'强势来袭!

After several years of low prices, the price of pork rose this year to a new historical peak. 经历了数年的价格低迷后，今年猪肉价格上涨，达到一个新的历史高峰。 Reviewing the fluctuating pork prices in China, there is an

VOA标准英语2010年-British Fairtrade Foundation Works to

The British-based Fairtrade Foundation works to improve the lives of farmers in developing countries, by guaranteeing fair prices for their products and investing in social infrastructure. The organization also tries to convince British shoppers to s

Crude prices jump on U.S. inventories

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices jumped on Wednesday as U.S. crude inventories fell last week. Commercial crude（原油 ） inventories decreased by 500,000 barrels to 357.9 million barrels, according to the Energy Information Administrat

VOA双语新闻：八国集团农业部长商避免粮食危机

Agriculture ministers from the Group of 8 most industrialized countries are meeting near Treviso in in northern Italy this weekend for the first time to discuss food security and measures to boost farming output. Talks will focus on efforts to avert

英闻天下——377 China to Reform Gasoline Pricing Mechanism

China's top economic planner says the country is studying a new fuel pricing scheme to make it reflect the global markets' oil price fluctuations more swiftly. Zhang Ping, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission or NDRC, says the c

英闻天下——380 Heated Debates over Oil Pricing System Reform

Under China's current pricing system - which was introduced back in 2009, domestic fuel prices are only adjusted when prices of overseas crude oil change by more than 4 percent over 22 working days. We will raise or cut fuel prices more swiftly and m

Home prices decline March in most cities

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- New home prices declined in most of 70 major Chinese cities in March, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. In March, 46 cities out of the statistical pool of 70 major cities saw drops in new home price

Gasoline Prices Higher, But Vary Widely By Country

U.S. motorists have long had an infatuation with cars and the freedom to travel far and wide on the countrys open highways. But now drivers are getting squeezed by higher prices at the gas pumps. American gas prices are still low compared to those in