每日晨读金融时报 07Dec2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日单词】buoyant /ˈbɔɪənt/adj. cheerful and optimistic."the conference ended with the party in a buoyant mood"----------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby  George Steer (来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• US stocks stumble following hotter than expected services data• Dollar gains as traders reassess the inflationary outlook• ...Wall Street stocks fell sharply yesterday after fresh data showed that the vast US services sector was still growing, even though the Federal Reserve has been trying to cool the world’s biggest economy with aggressive interest rate rises.Economic activity in the services sector increased for the 30th month in a row in November to hit 56.5, up from 54.4 in October, data from the Institute for Supply Management showed.Economists polled by Reuters had expected the index to decline to 53.3 — a number more than 50 signals growth.US equities sold off after the report, with Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 down 1.2 per cent in New York and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite losing 1.3 per cent.US equities had marched steadily higher over the past fortnight on the back of hopes that inflation may have peaked and that the Fed would slow its interest rate rises in December as a result.Andrew Hunter, senior US economist at Capital Economics, warned that the services sector was unlikely to remain quite so buoyant for long, however.“We suspect that resilience will fade next year as higher interest rates start to take a bigger toll,” Hunter said.The US Dollar index, a measure of the currency’s strength against six of its peers, rose 0.6 per cent as traders reassessed the inflationary outlook.Prices of US government bonds fell with the yield on the interest rate-sensitive two-year Treasury rising 7 basis points to 4.35 per cent.The yield on the benchmark 10-year note also added 7bp to 3.57 per cent....Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 1 per cent to $84.75 after Opec and its allies opted not to alter the cartel’s output targets....Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 4.5 per cent and has risen more than 17 per cent in the past month, while the CSI 300 index of Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks added 2 per cent.The pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.4 per cent after data showed a 1.8 per cent decline in eurozone retail turnover in October.