CNN最常用字
blue chip--原意是藍色籌碼,在牌局中藍色籌碼價值較高,用在股市上,引申為績優股.
CNN 原文
"JPMorganChase expects to have 40 research analysts there by June. Deloitt (ph), 1,000 employees in India as well, Hewlett-Packard 5,000, Oracle. I mean, these are blue-chip companies. These are some of the best companies in the U.S. in terms of what the future economy is going to be built on."
default--違約,或更口語一點,就是欠債不還,報導中常有"違約交割",亦即口頭約定買股票之後,到了該付錢的交割(delivery)日卻不付錢.
CNN 原文
"Many economists fear that this country of 140 million people may be forced to default on its $800 million debt payment due at the end of June."
public offering--公開發行,也可以叫公開募集,一般的公開發行對象包括一般投資人(或散戶individual investors)和機構投資人(即法人institutional investor),我們常聽到的IPO就是initial public offering,首次公開發行;與公開發行相對的是私人募集
文是private placement.
"It started with Netscape; its Web browser inspired a generation of companies and its initial public offering in August of 1995 inspired a generation of investors to bet on the Internet as a transforming technology and an engine of wealth creation on par with the railroads, electricity and the automobile. "
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