英语听力视频：Twitter高价上市带动社交产品IPO

Twitter纽交所上市 IPO市值达141亿美元 How much will Twitter's IPO go for? From October 25, 2013: CNN's Christine Romans takes a look at how much Twitter's IPO stock price will be. 美国著名社交网站Twitter最终将其IPO的价格定为每

新西兰英语 720 Gisborne Rail

KiwiRail announced this week that it will close the railway from Gisborne to Napier. Heavy rain in March last year washed out 3km of railway line. The line has not been repaired partly because it was difficult to reach. KiwiRail decided that it would

Newly Found Painting Shows George Washington's Army Tent

One late night in May, Philip Mead was looking for historical objects from the American Revolution. He noticed a painting being offered for sale on the internet. Suddenly, he felt his heartbeat speeding up. Mead is the chief historian at the Museum o

China has no timetable to reopen IPO approvals

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The government has no plan to start approving IPOs again, sources from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said Thursday. A CSRC official who declined to be named made the remarks at a news briefing, dismiss

英闻天下——76 China's IPO and Refinancing Markets in 2012

A leading Chinese financial data provider says that IPOs on China's A-share market lost its momentum in 2012, with fewer newly listed companies and reduced fundraising. Some 150 Chinese firms raised a combined 93 billion yuan through IPOs in Shanghai

奥巴马每日发言For High-Speed Rail (2009-4-16)

暂无音频 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT ON A VISION FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL IN AMERICA Room 450 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 9:33 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) I promise these comments will be sho

股市反弹 IPO再度重启

China's securities regulator has announced that it will resume initial public offerings by companies after halting the fundraising mechanism since July. The suspension was part of emergency measures to contain a massive meltdown that sent the stock m

新西兰英语 646 Auckland Rail Loop

Today Auckland Transport showed the plan for the central city rail loop. At the moment, trains stop at Britomart. The plan is for trains to continue through Britomart, travel in a 3.5km tunnel under the city, come out of the tunnel and meet the weste

新西兰英语 602 Manukau Rail Station

The Auckland mayor, Len Brown, opened the new Manukau rail station today. It is the first new railway line to be built in 82 years. It will link Manukau city centre with the southern rail line at Middlemore and continue to Auckland city. The trip int

阿里巴巴本周启动IPO路演

After a one-week delay, Alibaba is to start its IPO roadshow this week. The company is reportedly going to go public on the New York Stock Exchange next week. Last Friday, Alibaba disclosed its initial public offering price range for the first time,

中国IPO市场异常火爆 800家公司等待审批

China's market for initial public offerings (IPOs) is the hottest it's ever been. 中国的首次公开募股(IPO)市场正处于空前火爆的状态。 The 62 new stocks that have completed their first month of trading this year soared 420%, on ave

中国IPO发行被要求暂停

BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-eight Chinese companies that have obtained permission from the securities watchdog for initial public offerings (IPOs) announced Saturday evening they would postpone follow-up issue of shares due to recent fluctuati

IPO重启 A股连续下跌

IPO重启 A股连续下跌 BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese stocks extended their losses from last week and sank to a five-month low on Monday amid lackluster economic data and fears that the flood of new listings that will soon hit the market

Inter-city rail projects cleared

Beijing, August 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)（国家发改委） on Friday approved a batch of inter-city rail transit networks, spanning more than 2,000 kilometers, to accelerate（加速） regional integ

百度爱奇艺视频网站向IPO迈出一步

Baidu, Chinas equivalent of Google, said Friday that it had received a nonbinding proposal to acquire its majority stake in the Chinese video streaming website Qiyi.com, valuing the business at about $2.8 billion. 百度在周五表示收到一份收购

万达电影院线上市IPO

China's biggest movie theatre operator, Wanda Cinema Line, is reportedly going to scale back its IPO, scheduled to take place on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange later this week. Reports say Wanda will seek to raise about 1.2 billion yuan or 203 million U

China approves 25 urban rail projects to boost economy

China approves 25 urban rail projects to boost economy BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planning agency has approved 25 urban rail projects that could be worth more than 800 billion yuan (126.98 billion U.S. dollars). The National De

英文短篇故事（纽约）273 The Facebook IPO

Facebook's initial public offering was May 18. CNBC was covering the event live. Ian went online at 11 a.m. Shares were selling at $39 each. He decided to gamble his entire savings of $5,000. He placed a market order to buy 128 shares. He waited for

Central China produces super-capacity light rail train

CHANGSHA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The world's first super-capacity light rail train was completed Friday by China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CSR) Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. in Zhuzhou, central China's Hunan provinc

China IPO market may hit 39 bln USD in 2012: auditor PwC

SHANGHAI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Funds raised through initial public offerings (IPOs) on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges is expected to reach 200 to 250 billion yuan (39.3 billion U.S. dollars) this year, top auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers