准确性练习9-－经济专题
1.The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in May. In the same month, new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low, despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.
五月份，领先经济指标的指数下降0.3个百分点，此外，尽管购房贷款利率为20年来的最低水平，新房交易额却猛跌至一年来的最低值。
the best mortgage rates：最佳利率水平是最高还是最低？
1、领先指标：是在变化时间上早于预测对象，即波峰或波谷的出现时间均早于预测对象。
2、同步指标：变化时间与预测对象完全同步，即出现波谷与波峰的时间与预测对象相一致。
3、滞后指标：在变化时间上迟于预测对象。
2.In one such report, Commerce said last week that its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.
在这份报告中，商务部上周表示，其主要经济指标的指数在7月份强力上升了1.2%。
3.“…World Bank Managing Director Richard Frank said in a statement that the ＄52 billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama administration--which includes ＄17 billion from the International Monetary Fund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after the government devalued the peso in December.”
“世界银行常务董事理查德·弗兰克在一次声明中表示，由奥巴马政府组织的520亿美元的国际救助，其中包括来自国际货币基金组织的170亿美元的，将用于应对比索贬值后墨西哥爆发的的短期金融危机。”
4.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at 2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its October low.
道琼斯工业平均指数本周收于2909.1点，在过去4周上涨了6.3%，涨幅544点，自去年十月低点以来上涨了23%。
5.The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 120 points on Friday.
道琼斯工业平均指数上周五暴跌120点，上周的股票市场给经济复苏的疲软带来了明显的证据。
6.March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
三月棉花股以83.30点收盘，下跌0.46点。
7.The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the lowest level in seven years.
德意志银行将贴现率下调至3.5%，这是7年来的最低水平。
8.The number of workers in the United States applying for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a month.
一个多月来，美国申请失业救济金的工人人数上升到历史最高点。
9.Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.
同去年同期的477.1亿欧元相比，今年的出口顺差为725.4亿欧元。
10.The December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its previous closing of 117-11/32.
12月长期国债今天在东京市场以117 -13/ 32收盘，此前收盘为117 -11/ 32。
