Category: Economics Report (经济报道)

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington was created in nineteen thirty-four to protect investors. The S.E.C. enforces laws and…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Pascal Lamy of France is expected to start as director-general of the World Trade Organization on September first. Mister Lamy…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. For the past ten years, a trade agreement permitted countries to limit imports of textiles and clothing. That agreement ended…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Governments and big companies often need to borrow more money than a single bank can offer. So they depend, instead,…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Lately the road has been a little rough for General Motors, the world’s biggest automaker for more than seventy years.…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Bankruptcy is a legal process for people and businesses that are in debt. It is designed to help them get…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. In an age of electronic trading, most activity on the world’s biggest stock market still takes place on a noisy…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Each year the business magazine Fortune publishes a list of the five hundred largest American companies. The new Fortune five…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. April fifteenth is tax day for Americans. It is the last day to pay federal income taxes for the year…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. What does it mean when a company restates its earnings? American companies whose stock is traded by the public provide…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Walt Disney Company is the second largest media company in the United States, after Time-Warner. It is worth fifty-seven…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. A United States government committee has approved a deal that will make the Chinese company Lenovo Group Limited the third…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Insurance is a guarantee against financial loss. Insurance policies can be bought for all sorts of things. The most common…

This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Identity theft has been a subject in the news recently. It is considered one of the top crimes in…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Financial news sometimes has words that seem out of place. Take a word like “disgorgement.” It has a few different…