【每日晨读金融时报】11Oct2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语_缩混

▸ US stocks climb as investors turn focus to pos­sible Fed rate cut

▸ Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index and Asian bourses gain ground

▸ Green­back slides against bas­ket of other major cur­ren­cies

US stocks rose yes­ter­day as investor focus shif­ted to the pos­sib­il­ity of Fed­eral Reserve interest rate cuts, fol­low­ing dis­ap­point­ing eco­nomic data at the end of last week.

Weaker than expec­ted non-farm payrolls data fuelled investor fears about a sus­tained growth slow­down in the US, send­ing stocks lower and bond prices higher on Fri­day.

But equity indices regained ground yes­ter­day, with the blue-chip S&P 500 index up 0.3 per cent by early after­noon in New York and the tech-heavy Nas­daq Com­pos­ite adding 0.7 per cent.

Fol­low­ing Fri­day's data, traders moved to fully price in a quarter-point interest rate cut by the Fed this month and some even star­ted spec­u­lat­ing on a bumper half-per­cent­age point cut.

“We think the August labour mar­ket data has opened the door to a ‘catch-up' 50 basis point rate cut at the Septem­ber FOMC meet­ing,” said John Davis, US rates strategist at Stand­ard Chartered.