澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-08-03

 Woodside Petroleum's attempts to buy back nearly 10% of its shares from energy giant Shell has failed. At a general meeting in Perth today 72% of votes cast by shareholders² went favor of the proposal and 28% were against. The resolution needed 75% support to pass. 

 

I think it was a, some shareholders focus on some, well, I think, quite narrow issues, and didn't look at the whole, big picture of the company and saying it's in the interest of the company and it's in the interest of all shareholders, in different ways. Now that's their right, you know, we went through this argument with them, and some of them agreed and said, OK, we understand now and we will vote in favor, others didn't. Uh, that's shareholder¹ democracy. 

 

Woodside stocks closed the day down nearly 1.5% at $41.90, and that was pretty much the story across the whole market today which finished deep in the red, where it has been all day: 

The All Ordinaries finished down 1.5% as did the ASX 200. 

 

Across the region: 

And the Nikkei is down as is the Hang Seng. 

 

To commodities: 

And gold continues to trade higher while West Texas Crude and Tapis are lower. And the US Dollar, the Australian Dollar is buying 92.85 US cents

1 shareholder   

n.股东，股票持有人

参考例句：

• The account department have prepare a financial statement for the shareholder.财务部为股东准备了一份财务报表。
• A shareholder may transfer his shares in accordance with the law.股东持有的股份可以依法转让。

2 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