【今日单词】
hover /ˈhɒvə/
verb
remain in one place in the air.
"Army helicopters hovered overhead"
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原文如下：
The day in the markets
by George Steer
(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)
What you need to know
• Wall Street indices hover in tight range ahead of inflation report
• European gas prices fall sharply amid greater than expected supplies
US stocks hovered in a tight range yesterday as investors took a cautious stance ahead of this week’s inflation data ...
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.1 per cent in morning trading in New York.
Investors have feared the impact on global economic growth of aggressive rate rises from the US Federal Reserve, which signalled last week that interest rates will increase higher than previously expected.
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The US Dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of peers, fell 0.6 per cent.
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Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 2.7 per cent while China’s CSI 300 rose 0.2 per cent.
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Elsewhere in Asia, Tokyo’s Topix rose 1 per cent and Seoul’s Kospi index gained 1 per cent.
European gas prices fell sharply yesterday with Dutch TTF gas futures, the region’s benchmark contract, down as much as 10 per cent to €108 per megawatt hour.
The wholesale European gas price hit an intraday high of €343 per MWh in late August but has dropped thanks to relatively warm weather and greater than expected supplies.
Investors welcomed better than expected German economic data.
Industrial production rose 0.6 per cent month on month in September, better than the 0.2 per cent decline expected by economists polled by Reuters.
The pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 closed up 0.3 per cent while London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.5 per cent.
In government bond markets, there was selling pressure from investors as the yield on the two-year Treasury added 7 basis points to 4.72 per cent while the yield on the benchmark 10-year debt was up 5bp to 4.21 per cent.
