澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-05-13

 Good morning everyone. Looking at the other finance news today.

It’s emerged that Greece was forced to tap into an emergency account to make a debt interest payment to the International Monetary¹ Fund. The Greek government raided its reserves to make that seven hundred fifty million euro payment on Monday, one day ahead of the deadline. It’s believed to have borrowed six hundred fifty million euros from its IMF holding account to meet that payment. It comes after the Greek Finance Minister warned his country that it was weeks away from running out of cash.

US telecommunications giant Verizon has agreed to buy AOL in a deal worth four point four billion dollars. Buying mass media company AOL will broaden the amount of advertising² Verizon can sell and will increase video production. AOL owns websites such as the Huffington Post, and still has two million customers for its slower dial-up Internet service while Verizon is trying to become more of a one-stop shop for internet services and enterntainment.

To the global financial market. The Wall Street ended the day lower. The Dow fell by thirty seven points. The S&P500 was down a third of a per cent while the NASDAQ was down point four per cent. In London, the FTSE closed down one point four per cent.

Checking commodity prices. West Texas crude is trading at sixty one dollars a barrel. Tapis crude is trading at sixty eight dollars a barrel. And gold is trading at eleven hundred ninety three dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying eighty US cents, seventy one euro cents and fifty one pence sterling³.

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 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

3 sterling   

adj.英币的(纯粹的，货真价实的)；n.英国货币(英镑)

参考例句：

• Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率？
• Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺，这有助于减轻通胀压力。