Business Channel 2006-12-29&31

One company getting tough on its former CEO, Ali Velshi here Minding Your Business. Good morning, Ali. Good morning, John. I used to love er..looking into the catalogues of this company, going through

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - 'Catch Shares': A Better Way to

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Too much fishing has reduced many fishery populations by ninety percent or more from their highest recorded numbers. Some fishing seasons last only a few days because the catch limit is quickly rea

Report Studies Growing Trees for Profit

Governments around the world have promised billions of dollars to replant trees on millions of hectares of poor land. What is missing are the businesses to make this happen. A new report by the World Resources Institute says it wants to solve this pr

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-10-30

Australian shares have been hit by a steady stream of profit-taking as investors gear up for a raft of local and international economic data due out next week. Both the All Ordinaries Index and the ASX200 have closed down about 0.5%. Shares in Macqua

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-02-12

The Australian share market has snapped aseven-day winning streak after unrest in Egypt sent global markets tumbling.The All Ords and the ASX200 closed down nearly three quarters of a per cent. Despite a record annual profit of $14 billion, Rio Tinto

Students at For-Profit Colleges Are Worse Off

Students at For-Profit Colleges Are Worse Off A new study says students who attended for-profit private colleges in the United States to learn a trade saw their earnings drop. The report by the National Bureau of Economic Research said, on average, p

2011年ESL之商务英语 15 Reselling Products for Profit

15 Reselling Products for Profit GLOSSARY to stand in line to stand with many other people, one in front of another,waiting to do or receive something when only one person at a time can do orreceive that thing * We had to stand in line at the bank fo

2018年CRI Chinese SOEs see solid profit growth in 2017

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) saw 23.5 percent profit growth last year, a contrast to the 1.7-percent in 2016. Data from the Ministry of Finance shows that combined SOE profits rose to a record-high 2.9 trillion yuan, or about 450 billion U.

新西兰英语 751 Mighty River Power shares

The government plans to sell 49% of Mighty River Power company very soon. Mighty River is an electricity company. New Zealanders who are interested in buying shares in this company need to pre-register their interest on-line. About 150,000 people hav

常用会计词汇英译汉-n/o/p

net current assets 净流动资产 net loss 净损失 net profit 纯利 net profit ratio 纯利率 net purchases 购货净额 net sales 销货净额 nominal account 虚帐户 noting 公证文件 notin

China's Datang Int'l Power profit down 22.78 pct in 2011

BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Datang International Power, a listed unit of China Datang, a major Chinese power producer, said Sunday its net profit fell 22.78 percent year-on-year to 1.91 billion yuan (303.2 million U.S. dollars) due to rising therma

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-09-01

Virgin Australia says its major shakeup has pushed the airline to a fully loss. Virgin took 100-million-dollar hit from a fast tracked restructure thats / the company at business-class seats, switch to a new ticketing system and make two big acquisit

经济学人83:互益性企业 心系社会的企业

Business B Corps Firms with benefits 商业 互益性企业 心系社会的企业 A new sort of caring, sharing company gathers momentum 一种关爱社会、分享利益的新型公司形式方兴未艾 HE likes to do things differently. 伊冯?乔伊

新西兰英语 239 Farmers buy shares in Fonterra

Fonterra is the biggest company in New Zealand and also the biggest export dairy company in the world. It is a co-operative which means that farmers own it. In fact, 10, 500 dairy farmers in New Zealand own Fonterra. Each farmer has one share for eac

China's No.2 automaker's net profit down 4.6 pct in 2011

SHANGHAI, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Dongfeng Motor Group Co., China's second largest carmaker, said Tuesday its 2011 net profit fell 4.6 percent year on year to 10.48 billion yuan (1.7 billion U.S. dollars). Sales revenue rose 7.4 percent year on year to

Cisco quarterly profit drops 7.9 percent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cisco Systems Inc., the world 's biggest networking equipment maker, on Wednesday reported that its profit fell about 7.9 percent in the most recent quarter. In the company's fiscal 2012 first quarter ending on Oct.

Gold slips on profit taking,strong dollar

CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures（黄金期货） on the COMEX （纽约商品交易所） Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange ended moderately lower on Wednesday, as sharp range up move in gold on Tuesday prompted investors to ta

Chinese shares plunge 5% on profit taking

BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese equities ended 5 percent lower Wednesday after rebounding from plummeting more than 7 percent in the afternoon trade, as investors cashed in on earlier gains during the past five trading days. The benchmark Shangh

英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-01-29

And Apple shares have fallen sharply on the back of flat profit results. Shares in the tech-giant plunged close to nine percent overnight. The company has reported a profit of just over 13 billion dollars in the four months to January. Apple says it

HP quarterly profit plunges 90 percent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Monday reported that its profit in the most recent quarter fell more than 90 percent with sales also declining. In the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 ended Oct. 31, the company p