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WBR: Nigeria Suffers From Falling Oil Price 19 Dec 14

Fri, 19 Dec 14

Nigeria's currency, the naira, has fallen to a record low value this week. We look at how Africa's largest economy has suffered hard from the global fall in oil prices. Skype is introducing a new real-time translating service - the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains how it could be useful beyond the realm of overseas romance. And we speak to the founder¹ of board game Market Madness, to find out why risking financial crises and stock market crashes has become a hit. Finally, we discuss the week's biggest global business stories with Devindra Hardawar from Engadget in New York and Oliver Ralph from the Financial Times in London.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。