【听透VOA】经济贸易篇Item 17

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        US industrial conglomerate Honeywell and General Electric工业联合体
        the Dow Jones Industrial Average
        The European Commission
       
        hit profits at US brokerages导致利润上的损失    brokerage 经纪业务
Goldman Sachs
slumping market 萧条的市场
       
        merger and acquisition 合并与收购
       
        _____________________________________________________________. Analyst Jim Schmidt:
“It will certainly depend on the stock market. It’s not about to change imminently because, as we speak now, you know, the market is still kind of lackluster, and there isn't a real big calendar of deals coming up. I think things are about as slow now as they possibly could be in underwriting and in the ‘M and A’ business (mergers and acquisitions).”
       
       
U.S. industrial conglomerate Honeywell and General Electric kept pressure on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as hopes fade for European approval of their merger deal. The European Commission is expected to give its final decision early next month. The weakness of the stock market this year is hitting profits at U.S. brokerages. Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street's leading investment banks, reported a 24% drop in earnings. Besides the slumping market, Goldman blamed a sharp drop-off in merger and acquisition activity. Big deals tend to pick up when the stock market is strong.