每日晨读金融时报 08Nov2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日单词】waver /ˈweɪvə/verbmove in a quivering way; flicker."the flame wavered in the draught"----------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby George Steer (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• Wall Street stocks waver as traders scrutinise Fed comments and jobs report• Dollar slides on mixed data showing a rise in US unemployment rateUS stocks wavered and the dollar slipped yesterday after a mixed report on the country’s jobs market and a duo of senior Federal Reserve officials backed a slower pace of increases in borrowing costs.The blue-chip S&P 500 rose 0.1 per cent while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.3 per cent.Across the Atlantic, the pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 added 1.8 per cent.The US Dollar index, which tracks the currency against six leading peers, fell 1.6 per cent.The move came after Susan Collins and Thomas Barkin, heads of the Boston and Richmond Fed branches, respectively, said the central bank should start considering a slowdown in its interest rate rises.Investors also scrutinised data showing the US added 261,000 jobs in October, exceeding Wall Street expectations of 200,000. The unemployment rate, however, increased by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 per cent in October, higher than the 3.6 per cent predicted.Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist at LPL Financial, said the report bolstered the case for a smaller 0.5 percentage point rise at the Fed’s December meeting and “helped the equities market” because higher unemployment figures implied payroll numbers are “shifting lower but not collapsing”.The yield on the two-year Treasury, which is particularly sensitive to short-term monetary policy expectations, reached its highest level since mid-2007 on Thursday but fell yesterday 3 basis points to 4.67 per cent.Industrial metal prices skyrocketed, with some key commodity assets poised for historic daily gains.Copper, a barometer of health for the global economy, powered 6.5 per cent higher to breach $8,000 a tonne for the first time in two months.Other base metals including nickel, zinc and tin also jumped up by more than 5 per cent after sliding since March on macroeconomic fears that have trumped supply concerns.Gold gained 2.8 per cent to $1,677 per troy ounce, putting it on course for its best day since March.

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