澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-12-09

 When the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was up 13 points. The Dax and Euro were down. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up. The S&P 500 is also up, while the Nasdaq is down 12 points. 

 

 

 

And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 104.8 US cents this morning. It'll also buy you around 65 British pence and 125.81 New Zealand dollars.

 

 

 

Aston Martin is receiving a 230-million-dollar cash injection from the Italian private equity¹ firm Equity Industrial. The investment will give the equity firm a 37.5 percent stake  in the business. The luxury carmaker will put them mainly towards the more than 750 million dollars it plans to spend on new models and technologies over the next five years. Aston Martin has been looking for fresh investment to allow it to compete with rivals such as Porsche and Ferrari.

1 equity   

n.公正，公平，（无固定利息的）股票

参考例句：

• They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
• To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。