【每日晨读金融时报】29Sep2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

Shares in Bri­tain’s biggest banks tumbled yes­ter­day amid mount­ing fears that the chan­cel­lor might raise taxes on the sec­tor in the autumn Budget to bol­ster the strained pub­lic fin­ances.

Nat­W­est, Lloyds Bank­ing Group and Barclays exper­i­enced some of their worst sell-offs in months as the Treas­ury faced calls to intro­duce a new levy on bank profits.

Nat­W­est fell as much as 5.9 per cent before clos­ing down 4.9 per cent, the worst per­former on the FTSE 100.

Nat­W­est closed down 4.9 per cent, the worst per­former on the FTSE 100, while Lloyds fell 3.4 per cent

Lloyds, which is often seen as a bell­wether for the UK eco­nomy, fell 5 per cent before par­ing back its losses to 3.4 per cent. Barclays stock ended the day 2.2 per cent lower.

The banks dragged the index to its fourth straight days of losses for the first time since US Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump announced sweep­ing tar­iffs in April.

The falls came as the Fin­an­cial Times repor­ted that banks were braced for min­is­ters to intro­duce a sur­charge on profits or even a new bank levy to help fill a fiscal hole estim­ated by eco­nom­ists to be at least £20bn.