NPR 2009-02-21

To say stock market investors are pessimistic as the week winds down would be something of an understatement. All three of the major stock market indexes ended the session lower today. The fresh bear market lows followed remarks from Senate Banking

高油价导致穷人生活更困难

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常用外国货币名称

DM210 is equivalent to 400 RMB. (just for example) 210德国马克折合人民币400元。 Don't you wish to employ RMB of ours? US Dollars might be adopted. 如果你们不同意用我们的人民币结算，美圆也可以。 Are you afraid of losi

询盘的受理

询盘的受理 我们的条件是10日内付款为2%的折扣, 30日内付款无折扣。 Our terms are 2% ten days, thirty days net. 我公司仅限于从发票开出之日起10日内付现金者给予折扣优待。 We only allow a cash discount o

VOA常速英语2008年-Asian Markets Remain Volatile in Limited Tradin

By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 20 March 2008 Stock markets in Asia remain jittery, with fears of a U.S. recession continuing to cause major market fluctuation. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, financial analysts say that this may be the beginning o

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The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gave his assessment of econom

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Lower Oil Price Helps Consumers But Market Volatility Remains In recent months, crude oil prices have experienced their sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis, and now stand at around $80 a barrel. Alongside one of the main highways leading in

VOA常速英语2007-Cocoa Industry Meeting Aims to Help Impoverished

By Phillip Wellman Dakar 02 October 2007 Cocoa buyers, sellers, producers and other industry stakeholders are meeting this week in Accra, Ghana to discuss the future of cocoa business. In West Africa, where millions depend on the trade for their live

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In recent months, crude oil prices have experienced their sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis, and now stand at around $80 a barrel. 近几个月，原油价格经历了2008年金融危机以来最深的跌幅，现在保持在每桶80美元左

VOA双语新闻：澳中矿业及钢铁谈判仍处于僵局

Australian miners and Chinese buyers have missed an annual deadline to set benchmark iron ore prices, signaling the end of a 42-year-old system and risking new friction between the major trading partners. 澳大利亚矿主和中国买主错过了就设

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After several years of low prices, the price of pork rose this year to a new historical peak. 经历了数年的价格低迷后，今年猪肉价格上涨，达到一个新的历史高峰。 Reviewing the fluctuating pork prices in China, there is an

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Britain's decision to leave the European Union drew mixed reactions from Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul. 英国脱离欧盟这一决定近日引起了中日韩三国的不同反应。 During a press briefing Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunyin

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The British-based Fairtrade Foundation works to improve the lives of farmers in developing countries, by guaranteeing fair prices for their products and investing in social infrastructure. The organization also tries to convince British shoppers to s

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The National Development and Reform Commission on last Tuesday announced a rise in the per-ton retail price of gasoline by 165 yuan and diesel by 160 yuan. 国家发展改革委上周二发布通知称，将汽、柴油零售价格每吨分别上调1

VOA双语新闻：八国集团农业部长商避免粮食危机

Agriculture ministers from the Group of 8 most industrialized countries are meeting near Treviso in in northern Italy this weekend for the first time to discuss food security and measures to boost farming output. Talks will focus on efforts to avert

英闻天下——377 China to Reform Gasoline Pricing Mechanism

China's top economic planner says the country is studying a new fuel pricing scheme to make it reflect the global markets' oil price fluctuations more swiftly. Zhang Ping, the head of the National Development and Reform Commission or NDRC, says the c

英闻天下——380 Heated Debates over Oil Pricing System Reform

Under China's current pricing system - which was introduced back in 2009, domestic fuel prices are only adjusted when prices of overseas crude oil change by more than 4 percent over 22 working days. We will raise or cut fuel prices more swiftly and m

Home prices decline March in most cities

BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- New home prices declined in most of 70 major Chinese cities in March, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. In March, 46 cities out of the statistical pool of 70 major cities saw drops in new home price

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U.S. motorists have long had an infatuation with cars and the freedom to travel far and wide on the countrys open highways. But now drivers are getting squeezed by higher prices at the gas pumps. American gas prices are still low compared to those in

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Today, we came to the city of Wuhu in Anhui, Wuhu Yangtze River side is a beautiful city. Good morning, bright red rising sun, the horizon of Yunxia red. Zhaoxia magnificent in the vast Jiang Yinghong surface. Like a fairy of the Red Silk Cut, the ri