每日晨读金融时报 21Sep2023 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日单词】lingering /ˈlɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/adjectivelasting for a long time or slow to end.eg. ...lingering inflation...----------------------------原文如下：The day in the markets(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know▸ US gov­ern­ment debt yields rise to 16-year high as Fed wor­ries spark sell-off▸ Wall Street and European stocks retreat along with Asia’s indices▸ Oil prices turn higher to add to con­cerns over linger­ing infla­tionTreas­ury yields rose to a fresh 16-year high yes­ter­day as global stocks and bonds slid after strong US eco­nomic data added to investor fears that interest rates will stay higher for longer to com­bat per­sist­ent infla­tion.Yields on the bench­mark 10-year Treas­ury bond rose 13 basis points to 4.48 per cent after fresh data showed US applic­a­tions for unem­ploy­ment bene­fits — a proxy for lay-offs — last week fell to their low­est level since Janu­ary.Longer-dated US Treas­ur­ies also sold off with yields on 30-year debt rising 16bp to 4.56 per cent.The moves came after the US Fed­eral Reserve on Wed­nes­day kept its key fed­eral funds rate steady at a tar­get range of 5.25-5.5 per cent.However, it fore­cast that there could be another quarter-point increase by the end of this year while pen­cil­ling in only two rate cuts for 2024.

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