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Stock Exchange
Another key financial institution in the money market is the stock exchange. / The stock exchange makes a market through stockbrokers. / In the United States the market is made by specialists / who are wholesalers of stocks and shares. / They hold a "float" of shares at any time, / and daily prices are set as they mark prices down / and as they balance shares offered with shares demanded. / Stock exchange transactions occur within a complex network of law, / government regulations, / and the internal rules of the individual governing bodies. / Stock mar- kets throughout the world have become increasingly institutionalized in the last 30 years. / Although small savings have expanded greatly, / they have in general been used to boost the great growth in personal insurance and pen- sions. / Hence the main supply of funds to the stock market is now / through insurance companies, pension funds, private universities, and other institutional fund sources. /
[听音关键] 根据关键词:financial institution金融机构,stock exchange股票交易,stock股票,stockbroker股票经纪人,share股票,可知这是一篇介绍股票交易的说明文。
[听写难点] ①有关股票交易的词,如:stockbroker股票经纪人,wholesaler批发商,transaction交易,pension养老金,退休金;②数字,如last 30 years;③难词,如:institutionalize使制度化或习俗化,boost推进。
[画龙点睛] 难句“They hold a‘float’of shares at any time,and daily prices are set as they mark prices down as they balance shares offered with shares demanded.”中的“float”of share指股份的“浮动”,了解此短语的意思就不会误听为“flood”of shares。