每日金融时报 04Oct2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语_缩混

【今日单词】streak/striːk/noun1.a long, thin line or mark of a different substance or colour from its surroundings."a streak of oil"------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby  Joshua Oliver and Hudson Lockett(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• US stocks poised to close a third consecutive quarter of declines• Mixed trading yesterday fails to reverse grim period for equity markets• Core government bond yields are steady after tumultuous weekUS stocks were on course for their longest streak of quarterly losses since the 2008 financial crisis as central banks’ determination to tame inflation through tighter monetary policy weighed on share prices.Wall Street equities struggled for direction yesterday at the end of a tumultuous week in which the Bank of England intervened to calm turbulence in the UK government debt market.The broad S&P gauge was little changed by early afternoon in New York, leaving the index poised to close a third consecutive quarter of declines, down almost 4 per cent for the three months ending on September 30.Yesterday’s moves followed a grim period for stock markets as central banks signalled that they would stay the course on raising interest rates, reducing support for their economies in an effort to contain inflation.“Central bankers are telling us that they are going to tame inflation, that is going to come at [the] expense of the economy and we don’t care about markets right now,” said Emmanuel Cau, head of European equity strategy at Barclays. “I suspect you can see the market bounce on the end of the month on the lack of back news.”Wall Street had suffered a gloomy session on Thursday with the S&P 500 down 2.1 per cent. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.8 per cent after Bank of America cut its rating for tech giant Apple from “buy” to “neutral”.London’s FTSE 100 added 0.2 per cent yesterday while the pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 rose 1.3 per cent.Bonds steadied in the wake of the BoE this week launching a new programme to buy long-dated debt to stabilise the gilt market, which had been unnerved by plans to borrow more to fund tax cuts.The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note, the global benchmark for borrowing, was broadly steady at around 3.75 per cent after breaking above 4 per cent on Wednesday for the first time since 2010.The yield on 10-year UK gilts also steadied at 4.1 per cent.UK yields across all maturities have swung by historic magnitudes in recent sessions with the 10-year surging more than 0.4 percentage points on Monday before falling almost 0.5 percentage points on Wednesday.In Asian equity markets, Tokyo’s Topix index fell 1.8 per cent and China’s CSI 300 index shed 0.6 per cent.

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