每日晨读金融时报 05Jan2023 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日短语】draw a contrast to show noticeable differences. : to compare two persons or things so as to show the differences between them. ----------------------------原文如下：The day in the markets(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• Tesla leads S&P 500 lower in downbeat start to year on Wall Street• European equities post broad gains as German inflation eases• Nickel prices jump, extending a long period of volatile tradingUS stocks started 2023 on a downbeat note as shares in electric-car maker Tesla continued falling, drawing a contrast with the more optimistic new year’s performance across the Atlantic.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.7 per cent and 1.2 per cent, respectively.Tesla’s shares have declined since mid-September by about 65 per cent and were the worst-performing member of the S&P 500 yesterday, the first US trading day of the new year.In contrast, the pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 gained 1.2 per cent, extending gains from an upbeat start to 2023 the previous day.London’s FTSE 100, which was closed on Monday, kicked off the year by rallying 1.4 per cent.Outside of the US, yesterday was “a case of new year, new optimism, even if there’s nothing specific [investors] are going off”, said Neil Birrell, chief investment officer at Premier Miton.The moves came in a trading session during which fresh data showed German inflation slowed more than expected in December with consumer prices increasing 9.6 per cent on the year, from 11.3 per cent in November.A survey by Reuters showed economists had expected a reading of 10.7 per cent.

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