Prices for petrol, electricity, and gas for cooking went up today to pay for the greenhouse gas they put into the atmosphere. Petrol went up 3 cents a litre to $1.79 a litre for unleaded petrol. Electricity and gas prices went up 3.3%. This is becaus...
We all know about price rises in the last few months. Petrol continues to increase, mostly because of the price of a barrel of oil on the international market. Mortgage interest rates have been increasing for some time although last week there was a...
WELLINGTON, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Fuel prices are at their highest level in nearly three years in New Zealand on Wednesday after the four main oil companies increased their prices by 3 cents. Shell, Caltex, BP and Mobil have raised the price of 91 oct...
The economic cost of the worst natural disaster（自然灾害 ） in Japan's history continues to rise. Experts are saying the devastating combination of earthquake, tsunami and now - the deepening nuclear crisis, is likely to result in bigger-than-...
More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly...
NEW YORK, March 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks rebounded on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial（工业的） average achieving three-digit gains as oil prices eased from its fresh multi-year high, soothing concerns that surging oil could hurt economi...
Prices for oil and gold rose sharply on Monday as nervous investors（投资者） reacted to political unrest in Libya, which is an oil exporter（出口）. The price of Brent crude oil in London, the benchmark for much of the world, jumped more th...
MADRID, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The rate of inflation（通货膨胀） in Spain climbed to 2.9 percent during the last month of 2010, according to figures published Monday. The Harmonized Consumer Price Index（消费者物价指数） (IPCA), published...
Price Of A Miracle 奇迹的代价 Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an...
House Prices 房价 Jo: Its time to answer another of your questions about British culture inAsk About Britain, Im Jo. Li: 大家好我是杨莉，欢迎收听BBC 英语教学节目。 So whats todaysquestion Jo? Jo: Well, weve had a question in from...
