英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-12-22

 The Australian share market is builing on yesterday's 2% gain as traders take hard from the lower Australian dollars.but this is worth noting volumns are light with only 2 and half days left until Chirstmas. The All ornidary index is up almost 1% at the moment as the ASX 200 index. The markets in Asia are going the other way reversing yesterday gaining. Japan's Nikkie is down around 1.4% and Hong Kong Hensheng is following. US stocks ended fairly flat just a day after investors¹ welcome the US federal reserve's plan to wind back stimulus² measure.Checking commodiities. And spot gold has slumped³ overnight but it's managing to recover some of its loses in the Asian session. And West Texes and S crude oil is also on the up. The Australian dollar is trading fairly flat against the greenback. Right now it's buying 88.69 Us cents. 

The federal government is planning a major shakeup of the future financial advise rules in produce by labor⁴. It's said the industry is currently over burden with regulation and that's driving up cost for consumers. Many of the changes would overturn reforms introduced in the wake of the Storm financial collapse⁵ in which some investors lost their life savings⁶. One of the proposed changes will water down the key prevision to oblige financial advisors⁷ to always act in the best interest of their clients.

 

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

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。

3 slumped   

大幅度下降，暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]

参考例句：

• Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
• The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

5 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

6 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。

7 advisors   

n.顾问，劝告者( advisor的名词复数 )；（指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网