英式商务英语【22Aug2022】附原文及实用单词短语

【今日短语】notch up to achieve somethingeg. She has recently notched up her third win at a major ski event. -----------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby Ian Johnston(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• Wall Street stocks edge higher after latest round of mixed economic data• US Treasuries make gains in wake of Fed meeting minutes• Dollar trades at highest level since late July in haven buyingWall Street stocks edged higher yesterday after disappointing US home sales data followed better than expected labour market and manufacturing reports, adding to the sense of global economic uncertainty.The broad S&P 500 gauge was up 0.2 per cent by the early afternoon in New York. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was up 0.3 per cent.Across the Atlantic, the pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.4 per cent.Those moves came after unemployment data for the week ending August 13 painted an optimistic picture with US weekly jobless claims coming in 15,000 lower than expected at 250,000.Then fresh data showed that sales of previously owned homes in the world’s largest economy clocked in at an annualised rate of 4.81mn units in July, down almost 6 per cent from the previous month and lower than consensus estimates of 4.89mn.Separately, a Philadelphia Federal Reserve survey of manufacturing activity in the US gave a reading of 6.2 for August, far surpassing the previous month’s figure of minus 12.3 and topping expectations for a reading of minus 5.Details of the survey “were mixed and not particularly amazing on net”, wrote JPMorgan analysts, but “this report sent a much more upbeat signal about manufacturing conditions than the very downbeat August Empire State manufacturing survey [from the New York Fed] that was released earlier in the week”.In government bond markets, the yield on the policy-sensitive two-year US Treasury note slipped 7 basis points to 3.23 per cent, reflecting a rise in the price of the debt instrument. The benchmark 10-year US yield fell 4bp to 2.86 per cent.A day earlier, minutes from the latest US Federal Reserve meeting signalled that restrictive interest rates would be in place “for some time”.Details of the discussion indicated that the central bank’s officials supported raising rates to a point at which they acted as a drag on economic growth, said Salman Ahmed, global head of macro and strategic asset allocation at Fidelity.But he noted that they did not “notch up the hawkishness” as much as expected by some traders.The US dollar — typically perceived as a haven asset that rises in line with expectations of higher interest rates — added 0.6 per cent against a basket of six other currencies to trade around its highest level since late July.

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