澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-12-06

 The Australian share market is tracking heavy selling in European and the US overnight after the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve disappointed traders. The All Ords is down 1.8%. The ASX 200 Index down just a little more than that. Slate¹ & Gordon and Dick Smith are burying the front of the selling. S is up on a tick-up in oil prices. ANZ is the worst of the banks. BHP Billiton is trading at a decade low. All straight dropped down after the European Central Bank's mingle² rate cut and extended stimulus³ measures. The Dow Jones lost 1.4%. The Australian dollar is buying 73.3 US cents. The electronics retailer⁴ Dick Smith and the energy firms Paladin and Drillsearch are among five companies set to lose their places in the Australian share market's list of 200 companies. The mining and materials firm Arrium and the environmental consulting group Cardno will also drop of the list. A quarterly review of the benchmark ASX 200 Index will see the five companies officially cut from the top 200 list on the 18th December. The US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has again attempted to prepare markets for the first US rate rise in nearly a decade this month. She has talked on congress the economy is reaching a point where we can handle in increasing interest rates. The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since the end of 2008.

When the Committee begins to normalize the standards of policy, doing so will be a testament⁵, also, to how far our economy has come in recovering from the effects of the financial crisis and the Great Recession. In that sense, it is a day that I expect we all are looking forward to.

1 slate   

n.板岩，石板，石片，石板色，候选人名单；adj.暗蓝灰色的，含板岩的；vt.用石板覆盖，痛打，提名，预订

参考例句：

• The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
• What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢？

2 mingle   

vt.使混合，使相混；vi.混合起来；相交往

参考例句：

• If we mingle with the crowd,we should not be noticed.如果我们混在人群中，就不会被注意到。
• Oil will not mingle with water.油和水不相融。

3 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

4 retailer   

n.零售商(人)

参考例句：

• What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢？
• The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。

5 testament   

n.遗嘱；证明

参考例句：

• This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
• It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明，编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。