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发帖数: 5329 | 1 还好吧，国内学的大多数词比crumple和slump更基本。6级词汇里绝对有可以代替
crumple和slump的说法，但是学了crumple和slump却代替不了别的词
不要总把自己的失败去骂国内怎样怎样，为什么你不骂GRE词汇不考crumple和slump呢？ |
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发帖数: 940 | 2 Japan’s lowest auto sales in three years is reviving concerns that
manufacturing will hollow out in Asia’s second-largest economy.
Such rhetoric was tossed around regularly as recently as 2012 by car
executives as the stronger yen forced production to shift out of Japan.
While favorable currency rates since then paused such talk -- Toyota Motor
Corp. (7203) is headed for a second straight year of record profits -- the
country’s first sales-tax increase in 17 years has led to a slump in
consumpti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 832 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: anlinrong (安陵容), 信区: Military
标 题: crumple和slump这两个单词国内好像不学
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 18 20:23:42 2012, 美东)
我从小学到大学的各种英语考试里面，都不考
slump 和crumple这两个单词，到了美国，发现这里的
报纸和电视上广泛的使用这两个单词。
国内那些乱七八糟的英语也不知道学什么。
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发帖数: 2269 | 4 http://www.gallup.com/poll/112264/Nurses-Shine-While-Bankers-Slump-Ethics-Ratings.aspx#1
Nurses Shine, Bankers Slump in Ethics Ratings
Annual Honesty and Ethics poll rates nurses best of 21 professions
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ -- For the seventh straight year, nurses enjoy top public
accolades in Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics of professions survey.
Eighty-four percent of Americans call their honesty and ethical standards
either "high" or "very high."
This year's results are based on a No |
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a*******g
发帖数: 832 | 5 我从小学到大学的各种英语考试里面，都不考
slump 和crumple这两个单词，到了美国，发现这里的
报纸和电视上广泛的使用这两个单词。
国内那些乱七八糟的英语也不知道学什么。
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发帖数: 5074 | 6 By Shobhana Chandra
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The worst U.S. economic slump
since the Great Depression abated in the second quarter
as government spending programs started to kick in,
while the sharpest pullback by consumers since 1980
augured a muted recovery.
Gross domestic product shrank at a better-than-forecast
1 percent annual pace after a 6.4 percent drop the
prior three months, Commerce Department figures showed
yesterday in Washington. A survey of purchasing managers
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发帖数: 18555 | 8 GOLD UP，股票SLUMP，还好昨天卖了点PNX |
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发帖数: 11672 | 9 （2楼，六月的琴弦，致家驹）（看文中图片请点链接，右键选View Image）
———————————————以下为正文————————————————
“终于漫长岁月，现已仿佛像流水。多少梦和往事，又再依稀在回想。
多少汗和眼泪，渡过欢欣及憔悴。也许只有你，可细说，可倾诉。
终于别离以后，在你消失在人海。却总想到你，哭与笑，的一切。遗憾已无泪！”
——Beyond《无泪的遗憾》
http://read.html5.qq.com/image?src=forum&q=5&r=0&imgflag=7&imag
1.
1993年6月30日，在昏迷7天7夜后，黄家驹离开了这个他热爱的世界。全港音乐人举行
晚会为他祷告，多少歌迷用尽各种方法为他乞福，却都无法挽留他离开的脚步。消息传
回香港，许多人仍无法相信。
歌迷们到启德机场接回黄家驹的棺木，陪伴他的是生前好友、家人和一起奋斗的Beyond
队友。灵车里，弟弟黄家强一直跪在棺前痛哭；好友单立文怀抱家驹用过的吉它低头潸
然泪下。出殡那天，万人空... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 36302 | 10 Ferraris Out of Fashion in Italy as Police Nab Tax Evaders
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Police fanned out across Milan in late January halting
more than 350 vehicles, mostly luxury SUVs and Porsches, in a bid to catch
tax evaders. Bloomberg Television's Caroline Hyde reports. (Source:
Bloomberg)
Enlarge image
Italy is No Place for Tax Evaders To Buy a Ferrari Victor Sokolowicz/
Bloomberg
A Ferrari SpA logo is displayed on the trunk of an automobile at the company
's plant in Maranello.
A Ferrari SpA ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 11 Anonymous Warns Trump Of Democrat Election Fraud
Expect Electronic Machines To Be Hacked, Be Prepared, Don’t Allow
Certification
More and more people are becoming concerned that the stage has been set and
the fix is in for election fraud to steal the upcoming election and award it
to Hillary Clinton. Obama isn’t acting like someone who recognizes he
might lose this November and there appears to be more than just his typical
arrogance at play. The Democrat candidate is a career criminal with fail... 阅读全帖 |
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g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 12 Anonymous Warns Trump Of Democrat Election Fraud
Expect Electronic Machines To Be Hacked, Be Prepared, Don’t Allow
Certification
More and more people are becoming concerned that the stage has been set and
the fix is in for election fraud to steal the upcoming election and award it
to Hillary Clinton. Obama isn’t acting like someone who recognizes he
might lose this November and there appears to be more than just his typical
arrogance at play. The Democrat candidate is a career criminal with fail... 阅读全帖 |
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a**i
发帖数: 608 | 13 应该是大 FUND 里 2011 ytd performance 倒数第一。
旗下几个FUND 都跌很多，唯一的亮点 gold fund 最近也遭重创。
所以这行当就是3年河东，3年河西。
Paulson's Advantage Plus Loses 46% in 2011 Through November
Kelly Bit, ©2011 Bloomberg News
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- John Paulson, the billionaire money manager having his
worst year, has lost 46 percent in 2011 through November in one of his
largest hedge funds, according to an investor update obtained by Bloomberg
News.
Paulson's Advantage Plus Fund, which seeks to profit from corporate events
such... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3386 | 14 Stocks, Euro Plunge on Concern Austerity Plans to Curb Recovery
By Will McSheehy and Shani Raja
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks fell the most since Feb. 5, the cost of
insuring bonds from default jumped and the euro dropped to its lowest
against the dollar since 2006 on concern European austerity measures will
derail the economic recovery.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dived 2.5 percent to 117.05 at 12 p.m. in Tokyo,
the Markit iTraxx Asia index of credit-default swaps climbed 10 basis
points t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2882 | 16 上个月这篇文章说毛子今年准备把出口欧洲的价格冲每千立方米从306刀提高到352刀。
http://energy.einnews.com/news/russia-cis-natural-gas-prices
Russia increases natural gas price for Europe by 15
[ 11 Feb 2011 18:43 ]
Baku – APA-ECONOMICS. OAO Gazprom expects European gas prices to rise 15
percent this year and supplies about 9 percent, said two people at the
Russian gas export monopoly’s presentation for analysts and investors today
in Moscow, Bloomberg reported.
The average price will probably rise to $352 per 1,000 cubic meters this... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 17 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-12/u-s-consumer-sentiment
By Jillian Berman - Fri Aug 12, 2011
Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since
May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the
stock market will prompt households to retrench.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer
sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior month. The gauge was projected
to decline to 62, according to the median forec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 19 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-17/chinese-developer-with
A closely held Chinese real estate developer with 3.5 billion yuan ($566.6
million) of debt has collapsed and its largest shareholder was detained,
government officials familiar with the matter said yesterday.
Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate Co. doesn’t have enough cash to repay
creditors that include more than 15 banks, with China Construction Bank Corp
. (939) holding more than 1 billion yuan of its debt, according to the
officials, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 20 There are 89 tankers sailing for Chinese ports, 80 of which are VLCCs - the
highest since January 3rd.
The number of supertankers sailing toward China’s ports surged to a nine-
month high amid speculation an oil-price slump is encouraging the world’s
second-biggest crude importer to accelerate purchases.
There are 80 very large crude carriers, the industry’s biggest ships,
sailing toward the Asian country’s ports, according to IHS Fairplay vessel-
tracking signals compiled by Bloomberg at about ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26623 | 21 WASHINGTON,(Reuters) - The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as
it buckled under the weight of unusually heavy snowfalls and a resurgent
dollar, but activity has rebounded modestly.
The government on Friday slashed its gross domestic product estimate to show
it shrinking at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 0.2 percent growth
pace it estimated last month.
A larger trade deficit and a smaller accumulation of inventories by
businesses than previously thought accounted for much of... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 22 Global Stocks, Dollar Slide As Nervous Traders Eye US-China Trade Talks
It has been a confusing 24 hours, with US futures slumping after yesterday's
unexpectedly hawkish-yet-dovish FOMC, which first slammed the dollar, then
sent the USD surging, and sparking an equity selloff even as rates remained
relatively unchanged. Today's this confusion spilled over into international
markets, with both Asian and European shares retreating, as traders are on
edge ahead of the US-China trade talks taking pl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 25 India’s electricity demand declined for the third straight month, another
indication of an economic slowdown that seems to be deepening.
Electricity demand from distribution utilities declined 13.2% in October
from a year earlier, data from the Central Electricity Authority showed. The
slump began in August when the power requirement dropped for the first time
in more than two years.
Slowing requirement mirrors a widespread slump in demand for consumers goods
to cars and houses. Industrialized p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since
May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the
stock market will prompt households to retrench.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer
sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior month. The gauge was projected
to decline to 62, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News
survey.
The biggest one-week slump in stocks since 2008 and the threat of def... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 .
By GILLES CASTONGUAY
Italian auto maker Fiat SpA F.MI +0.84% said on Friday it is cutting a
quarter of the workforce at a large plant in Poland that makes its Fiat 500
and a small car for Ford Motor Co. F +2.02% amid shrinking demand for new
cars in Europe.
Fiat, struggling to stem losses at its operations in Europe where its sales
have slumped to lows not seen for decades, said it would cut 1,500 of 5,800
jobs at the Tychy complex. It is Fiat's biggest cutback since closing a
plant in its hom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 28 Confidence among U.S. consumers declined more than forecast in January,
reaching the lowest level in more than a year as higher payroll taxes took a
bigger bite out of Americans’ paychecks.
Enlarge image
Sales grew to $48 billion from Oct. 28 through Dec. 22. Photographer: David
Paul Morris/Bloomberg
3:15
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Karl Case, co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller index
of property values in 20 U.S. cities, talks about the housing market. The S&
P/Case-Shiller index increased 5.5 percen... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 GunsAndGears 讨论区 】
发信人: foxbat (狐蝠), 信区: GunsAndGears
标 题: 旧金山人民终于把自己阉了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 5 09:51:49 2015, 美东)
泥哥杀人越货的好日子一眼望不到头啊
San Francisco's last gun store closing doors for good
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for
good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of
increased gun control regulations and vocal opposition to its business.
"It's with tremendous sadness and regret that I have to announce we are
closing... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4329 | 31 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/uk-markets-spain-stock
Analysis - Spain's stock valuation reflects slashed forecasts
By Blaise Robinson
PARIS | Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:38pm BST
PARIS (Reuters) - Spanish stock valuations have remained steady despite a 20
percent plunge in Madrid's IBEX over the past month, a sign that more and
more analysts are slashing their earnings forecasts,
It is a possible harbinger of more market weakness to come.
FREE GUIDES AND REPORTS FROM DIANOMIADVERTISEMENTInvest... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 416 | 33 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-Crash-Is-Hitting-nytimes-
SEATTLE — Few believed the housing market here would ever collapse. Now
they wonder if it will ever stop
slumping.
The rolling real estate crash that ravaged Florida and the Southwest is
delivering a new wave of distress to
communities once thought to be immune — economically diversified cities
where the boom was relatively
restrained.
In the last year, home prices in Seattle had a bigger decline than in Las
Vegas. Minneapolis dropp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 608 | 34 Residential Housing Ready to Awaken?
After half a decade of withering sales and slumping prices, there are strong
and diverse signs that the single-family housing market is poised for a
rebound.
In some metropolitan areas, the market has bottomed, with both sales and
prices on the rise and foreclosures on the decline.
This contrarian — and largely overlooked — thesis flies in the face of the
persistent gloom that has nagged the industry since 2007, when the subprime
crisis flared.
Industry analy... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 401 | 35 请问有谈价的余地吗？我们是2000年的房子。谢谢！
1) Installation of 900 sq. ft. concrete decking (match existing concrete) ($
6,750)
2) Retrofitting the irrigation system. ($ 950)
3) Retrofitting the drainage system. ($ 750)
4) Building a 24” high and 63 feet long slump block retaining wall. ($,4,
675)
5) Building a 6” high and 15 feet long slump block wall for vegetable area.
($475)
6) Installation of root barrier around the existing trees ($ 450) |
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t*******r
发帖数: 22634 | 36 当然俺前面给的是比较鼓舞人心的 link。。。对于爱给
自己找堵的人士，直接搜索关键字比如 “4th grade slump”
“4th grade slump phenomenon” 。。。// run |
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t*******r
发帖数: 22634 | 37 decay 不是这个意思，decay 是指那些从 4 年级开始 4th grade
slump，（不一定绝对分数低，太吃力的话，比如花数倍时间干一份
照葫芦画瓢的活，其实也算 decay 了）。。。然后一路 slump
到 8 年级再洗牌一次。。。而不是领先的原地踏步。。。
其实领先的也不一定原地踏步，你 lexile 搞到 1600 以后你还能
搞 lexile 么？或者小学搞到 lexile 1200 后，把图书馆 non-fiction
区域喜欢的书都刷了一遍，那还有必要浪费 陆战队主力 和 Seal Team 6
狠搞 lexile 么。。。
（其实这边小学高年级早就不搞 lexile 了，测的是 PM
reading level。。。而且 PM reading level 到 30 就算小学过关，
之后不测了）。。。
这就好比计算题搞成一计算狂有必要么。。。大伙儿都去搞 spiral 那个
HOTS (High OrderThinking Skill) 或者 critical thinking 了吧
。。。那 lexile 显然就看起来原地踏步或小步缓进了。。。 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 38 By Frank Tang and Aaron Pressman
NEW YORK/BOSTON | Tue May 17, 2011 12:31am BST
(Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros, who called gold "the
ultimate bubble," dumped almost his entire $800 million stake in bullion in
the first quarter, well before a commodities slump blamed partly on reports
he was liquidating his holdings.
Famed gold bull John Paulson held his ground, but Soros was joined in the
retreat by several other big names, including
Eric Mindich and Paul Touradji, according to 1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 37 | 39 Copper Traders See Rally Ending as China Use Slows: Commodities
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Copper traders and analysts are forecasting an end to
the biggest weekly rally since at least 1986 on concern demand will slow in
China while Europe’s lingering financial crisis limits growth.
Eleven of 23 people surveyed by Bloomberg say copper will drop next week,
eight predicted a gain, and four said prices will be little changed. The
last time respondents were mostly bearish, on Sept. 23, the metal slumped... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5492 | 40 ATHENS (Reuters) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide 1.44
billion euros ($1.75 billion) in loans to struggling Greek firms, providing
a stimulus to the debt-laden country's ailing economy, Greece's finance
ministry said on Saturday.
With Greek banks dependent on ECB cash to survive and reluctant to finance
any but the biggest companies, Athens and the European Union have been
pushing the EIB, the EU's long-term investment arm, to step into the breach.
But the EIB hesitated for mont... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2408 | 41 这个分析很有意思。呵呵
我昨天就分析了，这九家公司不可能包括新东方
Web Stocks Slip on Delisting Concerns: China Overnight
By Belinda Cao & Victoria Stilwell - Dec 4, 2012 5:11 PM GMT-0500
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Most Chinese stocks fell in New York, led by Internet companies, after U.S.
regulators accused units of the Big Four auditors of refusing to cooperate
on a fraud probe of China-based companies.
The Bloomberg China-US Equity Index of the most-traded Chinese shares in the
U.S. dipped 0.1 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2844 | 42 1. Tesla - Up 346%
Tesla was the stock-market darling of 2013.
Shares initially took off in May when the upstart electric-car maker
reported its first-ever quarterly profit. The rally kept gaining momentum
throughout much of the year, as the hype surrounding Tesla’s visionary
chairman and chief executive Elon Musk and the company’s long-term
potential masked its sky-high valuation.
The stock peaked in late September at $194.50, at that point up 474% on a
year-to-date basis. Shares slumped for th... 阅读全帖 |
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g*q
发帖数: 26623 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: gjq (不好啦,咕咚掉到井里啦), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国一季度经济负增长
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri May 29 09:05:02 2015, 美东)
WASHINGTON,(Reuters) - The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as
it buckled under the weight of unusually heavy snowfalls and a resurgent
dollar, but activity has rebounded modestly.
The government on Friday slashed its gross domestic product estimate to show
it shrinking at a 0.7 percent annual rate instead of the 0.2 percent growth
pace it estimated last month.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2462 | 44 不能更同意了，去年的10月，记忆犹新。其实，就算有10月，2月，8月这种几个slumps
，从2008以来，总的来说股市是在往高处走。为什么能一直upwards呢，我觉得是
shorts covering的作用。
我和你的推论不一样（我也看TA），我的看法如下：
从options的volumes来看，一天200+大跌，unusual option volumes on puts是平淡一
天的几倍，几十倍。options的作用，从2000年当初的小钱玩大盘的心理，
早就在2008年的时候转为hedge作用了（当然，还是有小钱玩大盘的人哈），所以，
我觉得从unusual option volumes on puts/calls可以看出有多少人实际是在short or
naked short的。
（当然，从每个symbol的"short interest %"也能够看出来，
但是这个有时候不知道是什么time frame来的，不太准）
shorts的最大问题是必须必须cover，short的人几天内cover，所以在曲线性地把大
盘往上拉呢。有意思的是，cover的timing，大宗的在p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16594 | 45 The Saudi and Kuwaiti oil ministers said yesterday
that OPEC will discuss the possibility of raising oil output if needed to
cool soaring prices. AFP PHOTO/HASSAN AMMAR (Photo credit should read HASSAN
AMMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
©AFP
Saudi Arabia has withdrawn tens of billions of dollars from global asset
managers as the oil-rich kingdom seeks to cut its widening deficit and
reduce exposure to volatile equities markets amid the sustained slump in oil
prices.
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency’s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 134 | 46 这个预测说到明年年底要到80 美分，不知靠谱不
Slump Strips Aussie Dollar of 'Poster Child' Status
The Australian dollar was served a double blow on Thursday, falling to its
lowest level against the U.S. dollar since 2010, on concerns around the U.S.
Federal Reserve scaling back the pace of stimulus and a downturn in key
trading partner China's manufacturing sector.
And strategists expect the commodity currency, which is the second worst-
performing this year after the Japanese yen, to head further south in the
months... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9751 | 47 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/slumping-intel-cut-5
Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an
effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer
chips.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company confirmed the job cuts Friday, the day
after Intel Corp. reported its profit and revenue had fallen for the second
consecutive year.
The purge represents about 5 percent of the roughly 108,000 jobs that Intel
had on its payroll at the end of Dece... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 GunsAndGears 讨论区 】
发信人: foxbat (狐蝠), 信区: GunsAndGears
标 题: 旧金山人民终于把自己阉了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 5 09:51:49 2015, 美东)
泥哥杀人越货的好日子一眼望不到头啊
San Francisco's last gun store closing doors for good
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for
good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of
increased gun control regulations and vocal opposition to its business.
"It's with tremendous sadness and regret that I have to announce we are
closing... 阅读全帖 |
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a**i
发帖数: 608 | 49 分析文章天天有。看看下面这个。
我觉得对 NJ 中北部大部分好的学区，房价底部已经过了。
利率还很低，股市天天涨，这些地方的房子上涨只是时间问题了。
Housing Declared Bottoming in U.S. After Six-Year Slump
Bloomberg
By John Gittelsohn and Prashant Gopal - Apr 25, 2012 11:51 AM ET
The U.S. housing market is showing more signs of stabilization as price
declines ease and home demand improves, spurring several economists to call
a bottom to the worst real estate collapse since the 1930s.
“The crash is over,” Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics
Inc. in West Ch... 阅读全帖 |
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h**z
发帖数: 9751 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Arizona 讨论区 】
发信人: hznz (hznz), 信区: Arizona
标 题: Intel to Cut More Than 5,000 Jobs in 2014
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 18 00:46:46 2014, 美东)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/slumping-intel-cut-5
Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an
effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer
chips.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company confirmed the job cuts Friday, the day
after Intel Corp. reported its profit and revenue had falle... 阅读全帖 |
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