【今日单词】
复习：haven /ˈheɪv(ə)n/
noun
a place of safety or refuge.
"a haven for wildlife"
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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
• Global stocks slip ...
• Oil prices waver as outlook for world’s second-biggest economy grows muddy
• Dollar advances, benefiting as a haven from risks
Global stocks slipped yesterday ...
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 lost 0.9 per cent, chipping at the index’s more than 3 per cent rise over the past month, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.8 per cent.
Across the Atlantic, the pan-regional Stoxx Europe 600 slid 0.6 per cent and London’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.2 per cent.
Oil prices had stabilised by late afternoon in London with Brent crude, the international benchmark, having fallen nearly 3 per cent earlier in the day.
The US marker West Texas Intermediate added 0.7 per cent, erasing an earlier 1.8 per cent decline.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng China Enterprises index dropped as much as 4.5 per cent before pulling back to shed 1.6 per cent.
The decline on China’s CSI 300 index of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed shares was as great as 2.8 per cent before it was trimmed to just over 1 per cent.
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The US Dollar index rose 0.3 per cent against a basket of six currency peers...
