【每日晨读金融时报】15Nov25 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

▸ Wall Street climbs as investors shrug off risk of US gov­ern­ment shut­down

▸ Dol­lar retreats against lead­ing forex rivals but Treas­ur­ies attract buy­ers

▸ European equity indices advance while pres­sure eases on UK gilt yields

Wall Street stocks rose yes­ter­day as investors shrugged off the risk of a poten­tial US gov­ern­ment shut­down.

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump was set to meet law­makers yes­ter­day in an effort to break the budget dead­lock behind the loom­ing fed­eral shut­down.

Fed­eral fund­ing will expire today if no short-term fund­ing agree­ment is reached, with a shut­down fol­low­ing tomor­row.

“In the past, shut­downs have had a mixed impact on equit­ies, rates and the dol­lar with no clear pat­tern,” said ana­lysts from Gold­man Sachs, not­ing that the dol­lar had weakened “in most instances”.

In the clearest sign of investor con­cern, gold prices soared to another fresh record high, punch­ing through the $3,800 a troy ounce mark.

The tech sec­tor car­ried stock mar­kets higher with the Nas­daq Com­pos­ite up 0.6 per cent by early after­noon in New York. The blue-chip S&P 500 index was up 0.2 per cent.