澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-05-02

 To finance. And the big four banks around the pressure to pass on the latest interest rate cut on in full. The chairman of LJ Hooker Great Palmer says a new housing starts are in the ** and a right cut will help us store confidence.The market generally expects the banks to pass on some of the rights, but not all of it. And the general speculation¹ somewhere in a 30 to 40 basis points of the 50. That was probably evidence by some of the common trend from the reserve bank. That will be a huge boost size on the average mortgage about 350,000. Dollars, around about 1200 dollars a year on our estimation, such such a very big boost. Uh, I think it helps confidence. I don't think it is the bail² or end of confidence. There is a very poor confidence factor in the strained consumer market at the present time, but overall, it's gotta be a big plus.  

Great Palmer. They're from LJ Hooker. Let's go to the markets now.

The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 were up slightly, London the FTSE gained 74 points. Check commodity prices. West Tax Crude is trading at 106 US dollars a barrel. Tapis Crude is at 127 US dollars a barrel.  And gold is trading at 1661 US dollars an ounce. The Australian Dollar is buying 103 US cents, 78 Euro cents and nearly 64 pence.

1 speculation   

n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机

参考例句：

• Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
• There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。

2 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。