每日晨读金融时报 29Nov2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日单词&短语】waver /ˈweɪvə/become weaker; falter."his love for her had never wavered"take heart inTo have one's confidence, courage, or happiness bolstered (by something). We may have lost the election, but we take heart in the fact that so many young people are now engaged and excited about politics.----------------------------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 set to post weekly rise on hopes ‘central bank storm’ will pass• Dovish set of Fed minutes prompt speculation rate rises will slow• Thinner holiday trade sees directionless moves for US stocks and also in EuropeWall Street’s blue-chip stocks wavered in holiday-thinned trading yesterday but were set to post a gain for the week as investors took heart in a dovish set of US Federal Reserve minutes published during the week.The benchmark S&P 500 was flat at lunchtime in New York while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 0.5 per cent.Wall Street markets were closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday and a half-day yesterday meant that activity was expected to be much lighter than usual.The S&P is still set to end the week more than 1 per cent higher after minutes from the Fed’s November meeting suggested that a majority of officials are prepared to slow the pace of interest rate rises soon — when they are confident that inflation has been tamed.“We are probably seeing the end of the central bank storm and that is enough of a relief for most markets to see positive performances,” said Florian Ielpo, head of macro at Lombard Odier Asset Management. “The Fed is not behind the curve any more, or so it seems.”US government bonds also zigzagged yesterday. The two-year Treasury yield was flat at 4.48 per cent while the 10-year yield was little changed at 3.73 per cent.The yield on 10-year Treasuries surged as high as 4.34 per cent in late October, its highest level since 2007, but has slipped back since as investors have begun to bet that inflation in the world’s biggest economy may have peaked.The US dollar rose 0.2 per cent against a basket of six peers, trimming its more than 4 per cent fall so far in November.European stocks took a cue from the tame US session, trading near the flat line. The pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 index was flat while London’s FTSE 100 ticked up 0.3 per cent.Asian equities were under pressure as ... Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slid 0.5 per cent, Tokyo’s Topix finished flat and Seoul’s Kospi slipped 0.1 per cent. The CSI 300 of Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks recouped early losses to rise 0.5 per cent.Oil prices gave up early gains to trade slightly lower with Brent crude, the international benchmark, down 0.4 per cent to $84.97 per barrel.US marker West Texas Intermediate slipped 0.3 per cent to $77.73 a barrel....

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