澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-11-25（在线收听）

 Good morning, everyone. The federal treasury has cut its long-term economic growth forecast because of the declined working population and working hours. Our senior treasury official E. expects the potential GDP to grow about two point seven five percent annually over the next few years. That's down from the three percent growth predicted in the federal budget. The federal government is expected to release its immediate budget update next month, and official growth figures are due out next week. The governor of the central bank has indicated that the interest rate will be on hold until next year. Gallen Steven spoke at the gathering in Sydney last night to Australian business economists. Mr. Steven says that if the official rate was to move lower, it wouldn't happen until next year. At the meantime economists should just cheer up. While one calls for concern is the price of iron ore, which just slumped to a ten-year-low. Iron ore fell almost two percent overnight, closed at forty-three point four US dollars a ton. Now this is the lowest price since 2005. The fall has been driven by weak Chinese demand and a higher US dollar. Let's go to the global markets now, and all rebounded after early declines. At the close the Dowe, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 all rose around 0.1 percent. In London the FTSE fell half a percent at the close. Checking commodity prices. WTC is traded at 41 US dollars a barrel, Tapies crude is at 47 US dollars a barrel, and gold is traded at 1075 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is currently buying 72 US cents, 68 euro cents, and 48 pence sterling.