英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-11-03

 The share markets fail to recover earlier losses and close down. ASX200 off by 14 points.  Macquarie share has got a good run though today after a report of 39 percent rise in half-year-net-profit to half a billion dollars.And shares  XX jump after revealing a rise in quarterly sales for the first time this year.  

 

Taking a look across the region, most markets say i hit a low and Hang Seng XX  recovery though. Wall Streets trimmed back overnight, the markets had more time to digest the Federal Reserves latest monetary¹ police statement. And there was voices suppressing in a slight possibility that Fed. could start taping stimulus² as early as December.And the Australian dollars has been peaking up against the greenbacks throughout traders, now close to 95 US cents.

 

And a report shows the Australia's capital city home values increase in October driven lightly by price rises on the east coast. The latest home value index by RP data and Rismark shows a 1.3% over rising in capital city values for the month. Sydney wins the best performance with a gain of up to 2.4% .Melbourne prices rose 1.2 %.

 

There is some encouraging scientific/ improvement in Australia's manufacturing industry with a key measure activity rising last month. The performance of manufacturing index by Australian Industry group has increased by  1.5 points to 53.2.That's just above the key 50 point level which indicates growth. 

1 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

2 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。