每日晨读金融时报 04Sep2023 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日短语】puncture optimism 打破乐观eg Hawk­ish com­ments by poli­cy­maker punc­ture early Wall Street optim­ism.----------------------------原文如下：The day in the markets(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know► Dol­lar rises and Treas­ur­ies sell off as investors weigh out­look for Fed policy► Increase in US job­less­ness may ease pres­sure to lift interest rates fur­ther► Hawk­ish com­ments by poli­cy­maker punc­ture early Wall Street optim­ismThe dol­lar strengthened and US gov­ern­ment debt sold-off yes­ter­day as investors reacted to data that offered a mixed read­ing on the strength of the US eco­nomy.The US Dol­lar index, a meas­ure of the cur­rency’s strength against a bas­ket of six peers, gained 0.5 per cent after the release of August’s jobs num­bers, which showed that the unem­ploy­ment rate rose last month to an 18-month high of 3.8 per cent. Eco­nom­ists had fore­cast an increase to just 3.5 per cent.Last month’s US employ­ment num­bers in con­trast were stronger than expec­ted with non-farm payrolls increas­ing by 187,000, more than the 170,000 expec­ted by eco­nom­ists polled by Reu­ters.Longer-dated gov­ern­ment bonds sold off with the yield on 10-year Treas­ur­ies up 10 basis points to 4.19 per cent.Fri­day’s fig­ures sug­ges­ted that labour mar­ket con­di­tions were “nor­m­al­ising” and raised the chances that the Fed’s next move would be a cut in interest rates in the first half of the year, said Andrew Hunter, deputy chief US eco­nom­ist at Cap­ital Eco­nom­ics.

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