每日晨读金融时报 11Nov2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日单词&短语】hang in the balancein an uncertain or critical state."his survival hung in the balance for days"gridlock / deadlocka situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made."an attempt to break the deadlock"----------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby George Steer, Hudson Lockett and Jaren Kerr(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• Wall Street stocks tick lower as midterm results come in• Prices fall as control of US Senate hangs in the balance• Equities in both Asia and Europe lose groundUS stocks fell yesterday as results from the midterm elections were filtering in with several key states remaining too close to call.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 opened 0.6 per cent lower and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.9 per cent in early trading.Many pollsters had predicted a “red wave” of victories for the Republican party as the vote got under way but early tallies for the midterms suggested that the outcome in several key states remained unclear.Mike Zigmont, head of trading and research at Harvest Volatility Management, said stocks were trading lower in part because the “red wave” had failed to materialise.“Conventional thinking on Wall Street is that if you get gridlocked political environments you get good outcomes for business and investors,” said Zigmont.“If you asked a bunch of hedge funds yesterday, they thought there were going to be [more Republican wins] and a nice pop today. A lot of that money front-ran the election last week and some of that money has now come back out,” he added.“The financial market reaction to a Republican win should be muted as the House outcome is already widely expected,” said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, adding that a Democratic victory in the House and Senate “would likely weigh on equities, as market participants might expect additional corporate tax increases”.The US Dollar index strengthened 0.6 per cent while, in government bond markets, the yield on the 10-year Treasury added 3 basis points to 4.15 per cent.In China, the CSI 300 index of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed stocks dropped 0.9 per cent while Japan’s Topix shed 0.4 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.2 per cent.The Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.4 per cent, trimming earlier losses, and London’s FTSE fell 0.2 per cent.Bitcoin fell as much as 4.1 per cent to $17,559 in a broad sell-off of crypto assets after the near collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchange. Bitcoin fell as much as 17 per cent on Tuesday.