澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-05-09

 Promises by Spain to bail¹ out the Spain's boost* financial markets, local investors² await tonight's federal budget. The big mine has helped hold the market up on higher prices of copper's product. The ASX 200 rose one third of per cent will copr* been some of yesterday's losses.

 

Looking the move, Light Holding slipped one per cent despite a reaffirming of its forecast for annual earnings³, and Telstra had a good day.

Check commodities, spot gold is steady, Tapis crude is around 120 US dollars a barrel. And the Australian dollar fell today after the latest trade figures came out as trading is around 101.7 US cents.

 

In stand on the trend, trade figures on country’s deficit⁴ widen in March, that's after importing increased more than exports. Because the dropping of export of Coal and iron. The bureau of Statistics says the gap between imports and exports was 1.6 billion dollars seasonally⁵ adjusted. Export's increase was driven by gold, imports rose by 5 per cent as Australia imported more fuel.

 

And the shopping center ALoCentre isn't talking* to settle a 200 million dollars legal case, taking wide investors.  Centeral is accused of misleading shareholders⁶. A accounting firm price would hold Copper is also being sued for faming to spot problems in the company's financial accounts, Central share is in the trading* as settlement is waited*

1 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。

2 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

3 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

4 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

5 seasonally   

参考例句：

• The price of vegetables fluctuates seasonally. 蔬菜的价格随季节变动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They moved seasonally among various vegetation types to feed on plants that were flourishing. 它们还随着季节的变化而在各种类型植物之间迁移，以便吃那些茂盛的植物。 来自辞典例句

6 shareholders   

n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
• the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任