英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-09-15（在线收听） |
Twitter has announced, via a tweet, of course, it's planning to list on the US stock market. It's filed paper work with US regulators for an initial public offering, but the details are confidential. Twitter has well over 200 million active users. It's the most anticipated tech stock to be listed since Facebook listed on the Nasdaq last May. The Australian share market fell on concerns the US Federal Reserve will start to scale back its stimulus program next week. By the close, the All Ords was down half of a per cent, as was the ASX 200 index. The Australian share market is trading near a five-year high. However, it's still well shy of the almost 7,000 it hit back in July, 2007.
To the movers today. And Myer built on yesterday's losses to close down 4 per cent. Mining stocks were among the worse performance after falls in commodity price overnight. The major banks also weaker but defensive stocks like Telstra ended flat.
Across the region. Japan's Nikkei managed to reverse earlier losses. And the Australian dollar is still down against the greenback. It's worth 92.44 US cents.
The casino owner James Parker has been given permission to expand his global gaming interest into Sri Lanka. Mr. Parker's Crown Group will be a major investor, one of two casinos to be built in the country's largest city Colombo. |
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