Euro View:
让我们一起回顾全球一周财政要闻~长度比平时大，难度也比平时大。不过呢，euro始终认为精听帮助记忆词汇的正确用法，而经济学家的用词也是好多大大颇为称道的。因此euro挖的空都很值得学哦~不能看到不会填的就放过了，填不出也不要太有挫败感，自己查字典找到的话会很有成就感哦~大家要坚持哈。
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各大公司简介查询Come in~euro以前许多介绍都是这里拉来的，还提供公司的近期新闻，有助大家理解商业新闻的背景。
steal a march on (谢谢楼下julia_pl提醒，偶破句了。。。)
Means: If you steal a march on someone, you start doing something before they do it in order to gain an advantage over them.
Origin: Armies would gain advantage by secretly marching to higher ground.
e.g. If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
take a dive
指财产、价格、名声等急剧下降。好像股票里“探底”一说。
be saddled with
saddle引申意: Burdened with; handicapped.
e.g. The business was so saddled with debt that the new owner had a hard time making a go of it for a couple of years.
write-down
这个字我查了忘，忘了查，总是记不住，eco里又老出现。关键是没有会计知识。
英：A reduction of the entered value of an asset.
日：〔簿記〕(帳簿価値、資産額の)圧縮, 削減, 評価減.
中：减记。减低资产的账面价值，因为相对市场价值估值过高
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Homework :
From the Economist, Business This Week.
Microsoft ended its tentative $47.5bn bid for Yahoo! after negotiations between the companies broke down over the price. Microsoft wanted to pay around $33 per Yahoo! share lower that the $37 the internet company insists each share is worth. Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo!
[____1____].
Sprint Nextel, America's third biggest mobile-phone operator, unveiled an alliance with Clearwire, an internet service provider, to create a network based on WiMax, the technology that delivers fast wireless internet access. Other companies, including Google, Intel and Time Warner, are investing in the venture. The deal may allow Sprint Nextel to steal a march on AT&T and Verizon Wireless. [____2____].
Countrywide Financial's share crisis took another dive after an analyst advised that if Bank of America went ahead with its proposed $4.1bn take-over of the [____3____], it would be saddled with massive write-downs. Although the analyst recommended it completely walk away from the deal, BOA gave assurances that it would proceed.
UBS announced it would cut 5,500 jobs by the middle of next year, 2,600 of them in its investment-banking business, [____4____]. The Swiss Bank, which has written down $38bn during the credit crisis, one of the largest sums of any financial group, also said it had sold billions of dollars of subprime debt at a discount to BlackRock, an asset manager.
Disney's [____5____] rose by 22 percent compared with a year ago. Despite the economic slowdown, the company recorded brisk trade at its theme parks and resorts, where revenue increased by 11 percent. The weak dollar was said to help by making it more expensive for Americans to travel abroad and cheaper for foreigners to visit the parks.
The price of oil pushed past $123 a barrel. Arjun Murti, an analyst at Goldman Sachs who three years ago forecast that oil would breach $100, estimated that prices could rise to between $150-200 a barrel within two years.
India's finance minister said that biofuels and speculators were responsible for soaring food prices and criticised the practice of [____6____]. India has placed a ban of trading futures in some crops and is considering extending it to other commodities. Earlier, George Bush upset some Indian politicians by suggesting that the country's increasing prosperity was a factor behind rising prices.
1. came
under pressures from disgruntled investors who'd been hoping for a sale.
2. Its larger rivals are backing a different wireless technology that will not be ready for two years.
3. stricken mortgage lender
4. as part of an effort to repair its tattered balance sheet.
5. quarterly net income
6. converting land use from food to palm oil production. (注意两个连读)
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