Business English: Finance

Alright, good fun! Now it’s back to today’s business! Let’s start filling in those gaps…

1. The global central banks want to keep interest rates at ___________________ ( = unnaturally) low levels.

artificially
improved
seemingly

2. This is not going to end soon. = This is not going to end in the ___________________.

short term
short cut
long term

3. Sometimes government ___________________ is necessary. = Sometimes the government has to get involved.

  introspection
  invention
  intervention

4. The numbers gave us important ___________________ on why the banks failed. = The numbers helped us to better understand why the banks failed.

  insiders
  insights
  instincts

5. The markets ___________________ ( = reached) a three year low yesterday.

  halted
  hailed
  hit

Let’s take a short brake. Look at the following photo carefully and describe what you see.

Let’s wrap this one up and get those gaps filled!

6. He was ___________________ as ( = considered, seen as) the savior of Wall Street.

  hailed
  halted
  hit

7. 18 months in a row = 18 _______________ months

  consecutive
  disclosed
  constrained

8. at an ___________________ low = at the lowest level in history

  allocated
  altogether
  all-time

9. This was supposed to ___________________ ( = create) confidence in the bond markets.

  make
  build
  place

10. to ___________________ headlines = to appear in headlines (of newspapers, magazines, etc.)

  collect
  garner
  allocate

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