B. Keywords.
up, gained, lost, down, profit, earnings.
Vocabulary.
batter, profit taking, turnover, London's 100 Share index, Nikkei Share Index, FT 100 Index, CAC Quarante, DAX, Hang Seng Index, Wall Street.
You're going to hear 5 more brief news items. Pay special attention to the numbers and percentages.Circle the up arrow and down arrow on the billboards. And fill in the missing numbers and percentages.
1. The dollar is trading at one German Mark seventy-three point three and at 126.9 Japanese yen.
The pound buys one dollar sixty-two point four.
In New York, the Dow Share Index closed at 45 higher at 6,783.
Earlier London's 100 Share Index ended 20 higher at 4,390.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei Share Index is closed for a holiday.
2. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 96 points at 10,116.
The standard and Poor's 500 index gained 6 points to close at 1,254.
But the NASDAQ Index lost 1.5% as high technology and Internet stocks were battered.