每日晨读金融时报|英语口语听力|原文及实用单词短语

Dol­lar on track for first monthly gain this year as US eco­nomy shrugs off tar­iffs The dol­lar has stead­ied after the worst start to the year since 1973, as the resi­li­ence of the US eco­nomy prompts some investors to back away from bear­ish bets on the cur­rency. The dol­lar index — a gauge of the cur­rency’s strength against major rivals — tumbled in the first half of the year as con­cerns t...

Payroll employ­ment in the UK fell for the fifth month in a row in June and wage growth slowed, in the latest sign that the gov­ern­ment’s tax rises, a higher min­imum wage and the US trade war are hit­ting the jobs mar­ket. Employ­ers cut head­count by 41,000 last month, accord­ing to the Office for National Stat­ist­ics, while May’s fig­ures were revised to a drop of 25,000 against a pre­vi­ous...

The US Sen­ate has approved a $9bn pack­age of spend­ing cuts that will hit pub­lic broad­cast­ing and over­seas aid and gives a legis­lat­ive vic­tory to US Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump. Broad­cast­ing insti­tu­tions NPR and PBS would lose fed­eral fund­ing if the pack­age, which the Repub­lican-led Sen­ate approved by 51 votes to 48 early yes­ter­day morn­ing, is signed into law. The bill would als...

The EU has  rever ­ted  to offer­ing the US  tit-for-tat  tar­iff reduc­tions on cars, while pre­par­ing a list of poten­tial levies includ­ing on Amer­ican digital ser­vices as part of pos­sible retali­ation if trade talks with Wash­ing­ton fail. Under the latest pro­posal from EU nego­ti­at­ors, the bloc would drop its 10 per cent duties on US car exports if the White House r...

Don­ald Trump asked law­makers whether he should fire Fed­eral Reserve chair Jay Pow­ell in a move that fuelled a fresh bout of con­cerns over the cent­ral bank’s inde­pend­ence and hit the dol­lar. A White House offi­cial yes­ter­day said Trump asked Repub­lican mem­bers of Con­gress dur­ing an Oval Office meet­ing late the pre­vi­ous day whether he should remove Pow­ell. Law­makers sup­por­ted t...

The value of the global crypto­cur­rency mar­ket has reached $4tn for the first time, as investors anti­cip­ate bil­lions of Wall Street dol­lars flood­ing into the sec­tor after the pas­sage of land­mark US digital asset legis­la­tion. The price of bit­coin hit a record high of more than $123,000 this week, while other tokens such as ether and Solana’s SOL also jumped. The rally pushed the com­bi...

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang said it would “accel­er­ate the recov­ery” of its China sales, after a détente between Beijing and Wash­ing­ton allowed the lead­ing AI chip­maker to resume ship­ments of a key pro­cessor spe­cific­ally designed for the Chinese mar­ket. Huang told a press con­fer­ence in the Chinese cap­ital yes­ter­day that the com­pany had not yet received export licences from Wash­ing­...

Trumprisks sugar rush with Coke sweetener call Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump says he has per­suadedCoca-Cola to switch from pro­cessed corn syrup to cane sugar in the US ver­sionof its iconic soft drink — because it’s ‘just bet­ter’. The move could havepolit­ical reper­cus­sions as many farms that pro­duce the syrup are inmid-west­ern states that backed him. Cane sugar comes mainly from Flor­ida andLo...

Trumptar­iffs reap $50bn as the world chick­ens out The reluct­ance of trade part­nersto retali­ate against Don­ald Trump’s tar­iffs has allowed the US to swell itscus­toms rev­en­ues by $50bn at little cost. Only China and Canada have hitback; the EU, the biggest trade bloc, repeatedly defers action. While the USpres­id­ent is taunted for ‘always chick­en­ing out’, experts say the US’s sizeand Tr...

Musk announces new polit­ical party after attackon Trump domestic bill Elon Musk, the bil­lion­aire investor who hasclashed with Don­ald Trump after being one of the pres­id­ent’s closest alliesin US busi­ness, said he had formed a new polit­ical party to fight a“one-party sys­tem”. Musk made the announce­ment on X, his socialmedia plat­form, after the enact­ment on July 4 of Trump’s domestic poli...

【 今日短语 】 winning streak an uninterrupted sequence of success A winning streak, also known as a win streak or hot streak, is  an uninterrupted sequence of success in games or competitions, commonly measured by at least 3 wins that are uninterrupted by losses or ties/draws . ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to...

【 今日单词 】 lingering /ˈlɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/ adjective lasting 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 pric...

【 今日短语 】 复习 downbeat: adjective pessimistic or gloomy. "the assessment of the UK's economic prospects is downbeat" ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know ▸ Crude oil moves higher as traders look ahead to cent­ral bank meet­ings ▸ European bank stocks hit after down­beat out­look from Soc­Gen chief ▸ Investors...

【 今日短语 】 hold on to:   or hold onto. 1. phrasal verb. If you hold on to something that gives you an advantage, you  succeed in keeping it for yourself, and prevent it from being taken away or given to someone else . eg. ... chip designer Arm held on to its gains yes­ter­day ... ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What y...

【 今日短语 】 fret over:   to be nervous or worried eg. Don't fret - I'm sure he's OK.  She spent the day fretting about/over what she'd said to Nicky.  ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know ▸ ** shares climb fol­low­ing poli­cy­maker moves to boost real estate ▸ Tokyo’s equit­ies bench­mark hits hig...

【今日短语】 puncture optimism 打破乐观 eg  Hawk­ish com­ments by poli­cy­maker punc­ture early Wall Street optim­ism. ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know ► Dol­lar rises and Treas­ur­ies sell off as investors weigh out­look for Fed policy ► Increase in US job­less­ness may ease pres­sure to lift interest rat...

【今日短语】 draw a contrast   to show noticeable differences . : to compare two persons or things so as to show the differences between them.  ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know •  Tesla leads S&P 500 lower in downbeat start to year on Wall Street •  European equities post broad gains as...

【今日单词】 ada mant   / ˈadəm(ə)nt / adjective refusing  to be  persuaded  or to change one's mind. "he is adamant that he is not going to resign" --------------------- 【原文】来自：金融时报 / The Financial Times LEO LEWIS — TOKYO The Bank of Japan continued a run of unscheduled purchases of government bonds, in an attempt to control a surge in yields caused by speculators b...

【今日单词】 pri stine   / ˈprɪstiːn / adjective clean and fresh as if new; spotless. "a pristine white shirt" --------------------- 【原文】来自：金融时报 / The Financial Times DEREK BROWER — NEW YORK Oil and gas groups are set to dominate the list of best-performing US stocks in 2022. Of the 25 performers in the benchmark S&P 500 index of stocks, as many as 15 will be fossil fuel operat...

【今日短语】 ebb and flow a recurrent pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth. "the ebb and flow of state politics and power" --------------------- 【原文】来自：金融时报 / The Financial Times Michael Howell It has been a bleak year for many investors. Global investors have lost $23tn of wealth in housing and financial assets so far in 2022, according to my estimates. That is equivalen...

【今日单词&短语】 sliv er   / ˈslɪvə/ noun a small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece. " a sliver of  cheese" in earnest to a greater extent or more intensely than before. "work began again in earnest" ---------------------------- 原文如下： Wall Street inches higher on back of economic data as holiday looms by   George Steer  in London and ...

【今日单词】 endure   / ɪnˈdjʊə/ v. remain in existence; last. "these cities have endured through time" ---------------------------- 原文如下： US stocks sink as strong data support case for further tightening by  Tommy Stubbington (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) Global stocks fell yesterday after better than expected US economic data bolstered the Federal Reserve’s belief that...

【今日短语】 复习： risk off This is  when investors put their money into less risky investments  such as government bonds, investment-grade corporate bonds, high-dividend stocks, and gold. ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets by   Tommy Stubbington (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know •  US stocks rise as markets digest Bank...

【今日单词】 recoup   / rɪˈkuːp / verb regain (something lost or  expended ). "rains have helped recoup water levels" ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets by   Nikou Asgari (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报) What you need to know •  Global bonds and equities take hit after BoJ’s shock policy move •  Japan’s change to yield curve control trig...

【今日短语】 on the back foot  To be on the back foot means  to be put in a defensive position, to be in retreat, to be knocked off balance . Primarily used in British English, on the back foot is a phrase that is most probably derived from the sport of cricket. "Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot" ---------------------------- 原文如下： The day in the markets by  Ge...