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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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