Practice Listening - New Season

futures:
A contract to buy or sell a specified amount of a commo***y or financial instrument at an agreed price at a set date in the future. If the price for the commo***y or financial instrument rises between the contract date and the future date, the investor will make money; if it declines, the investor will lose money. The term also refers to the market for such contracts.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/futures

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Bài của no_regrets:
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I?Tm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Intrade is the a trading exchange for politics, current events and all source about the sorts of other future happenings. It is similar in some ways to a futures market. But its contracts are only for small amounts. And they do not offer price protection. Instead, Intrade can be seen as the a place to test the wisdom of crowds. "The Wisdom of Crowds" is the name of a 2004 book by James Sue Wicky Surowiecki. He argued argues that large groups often make better decisions than a few experts. Intrade is cre***ed, for example, with correctly choosing how all 55 50 states would vote in the American presidential election last year. Still, the Irewish Irish company that owned owns Intrade and two other websites recently got into trouble in the United States. On Octorber 4, a federal agency settles settled the a case with the Trade Exchange Network Limited. The Commo***ies Futures Trading Commission found that the company has offered some kinds of contracts banned by the agency. The company did not admit or deny it , but agreed to pay a fine of 150.000 dollars (sao hay nhầm 50 thành 55 thế nhỉ?). Commo***y futures involved widely traded goods like oil, grain, enegry, and gold. Futures trading required requires two kinds of traders. One wants to protect against price changes, the other wants to profit from them. It can be highly complex. But imagine a farmer is worried about soilbean soybean prices. The farmer thinks prices will rise in the future, but has a crop to sell now. Say the correct current price is 5 dollars a bushel. The farmer can persuade purchase a contract to buy (yes, buy) 50.000 bushels of soilbean soybeans at the correct current price, but not for three months. In three months, the market price is six dollars. The farmer can now use the contract to buy the soilbean soybeans at five dollars a bushel. The farmer does not get the 50000 bushels. Instead, the farmer gets 50000 dollars, that differents -- the difference between the market price and contract price. How ? Well, the seller of the contract thought soilbean soybean prices would go down. When the price gets went up, the seller was responsible for the fall full market value. Head Had prices dropped, the farmer would have lost only the money to buy the contract, a small part of the fall full value, or. All buying and selling on the a future exchange takes place to through a single organization, a clearinghouse. Real goods are really rarely exchanged, only money.
This VOA Special English Economics Report was written by Mario Ritter. I?Tm Doug Johnson.
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Bài của gianglt:
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I''m am Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Economics Report.
Intrade is a trading exchange for politics, current events and all sorts of the other future happenings. It is similary in some ways to a futures market. But its contracts are for only small amounts. And they do not offer price protection. Instead, Intrade can be seen as the a place to test the "wisdom of crowds". "The Wisdom of Crowds" is the name of a 2004 book by James Sir Wicky Surowiecki. He argues that large groups often make better decisions than a few experts.
Intrade is cre***ed, for example, with correctly choosing how all 50 states would vote in the American presidential election last year. Still, the Irish company that owns Intrade and two other websites recently got into trouble in the United States. On October 4th, a federal agency settled the a cases with Trade Exchange Network Limited. The Como***ies Futures Trading Commision found that the company had offered some kinds of contracts banned by the agency. The company did not admit or deny it, but agreed to pay a fine of 150,000 dollars. Como***y futures involve widely traded goods like oil, grain, energy, and gold.
Futures tradings requires two kinds of traders. One wants to protect against price changes, the other wants to profit from them. It can be highly complex. But imagine a farmer is worried about soybean prices . The farmer thinks prices will rise in the future, but has a crop to sell now . Say, the current price is 5 dollars a bushel. The farmer can purchase the a contract to buy (yes, buy) 50,000 bushels of soybeans at the current price, but not for 3 months. In 3 months, the market price is 6 dollars. The farmer can now use the contract to buy the soybeans at 5 dollars a bushel. The farmer does not get the 50,000 bushels. Instead, the farmer gets 50,000 dollars, the difference between the market price and the contract price.
How ? Well, the seller of the contract thought soybean prices would go down. When the price went up, the seller was responsible for the fault full market value. Had prices dropped, the farmer would have lost only the money to buy the contract, a small part of the fault full value. All buying and selling on a futures exchange takes place through a single organizations or, a clearinghouse. Real goods are rarely exchanged, only money.
This VOA Special English Economics Report was written by Mario Ritter. I''m am Doug Johnson.

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Mình ở Việt Nam chứ không phải ở Hàn Quốc đâu, nhưng cũng biết võ vẽ vài từ tiếng Hàn nên lấy ví dụ thế thôi.
Quả thực mình thấy việc phiên âm tên nước ngoài ra tiếng Việt còn rất nhiều điều bất cập, nó chưa theo 1 chuẩn hoá nào cả. Ví dụ như khi phiên âm tên tiếng Pháp, tiếng Hàn hay 1 thứ tiếng nào đó ra tiếng Việt thì mọi người đều dựa trên cách đọc tiếng Anh hết.
Tất nhiên là mình biết Ái Nhĩ Lan và Ai-len chỉ là 2 cách phiên âm của 1 cái tên, tuy nhiên chúng ta nên lựa chọn tên nào mà hay được sử dụng thì sẽ tốt hơn, như vậy tất cả mọi người đều có thể hiểu được.
Thôi mình kết thúc nói về vấn đề này ở đây nhé. Xét về các khía cạnh thì không có ai đúng, ai sai cả . Chỉ có điều là ta xem xét vấn đề ở khía cạnh nào thôi.
P/s: Tên Hàn Quốc (hankuk) tiếng Hàn có nghĩa là đất nước của buổi sáng tinh mơ (hoặc đất nước của buổi sáng trong lành)

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em phải hỏi câu dễ thương như thế vì mấy câu hỏi trước của em có ai trả lời đâu. có mỗi chị trả lời em thôi. thanks

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Saddam Hussein Trial Suspended Until December 21st
bài này nhiều tên riêng à nha:
Baghdad
Saddam Hussein
Shiite
Dujail
Barzan Ibrahim
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Awad Haman Bander Sadun
Abu Ghraib
Nancy Steinbach

I''m Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.
The trial in Baghdad of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been suspended until after parliamentary elections. The elections will take place on Thursday. The trial is to continue on December twenty first.
Saddam Hussein is on trial with seven other men. The judges involve the killing of more than one hundred forty people from the Shiite town of Dujail, north of Baghdad. They were executed after an attack directed at Saddam Hussein in 1982.
Gunmen from a Shiite party fired at a vehicle in which he rode through the town.
The Iraqi leader was rescued after several hours of fighting. Later, his security forces attacked Dujail. They destroyed houses and businesses and took away most of the men. Many never returned.
The trial began on October nineteenth. The seven other men charge include Saddam Hussein''s half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim. He was the Iraqi Intelligence chief at the time of the killings. Another is Taha Yassin Ramadan. He was vice president from 1995 to 2003.
A third defendant is Awad Haman Bander Sadun. He was chief of Iraq''s Revolutionary Court. He signed death sentences in connection with the Dujail killings.
A group of five judges will decide the case. A chief investigating judge questions those who give evidence in the court. So far, those witnesses have described watching close family members being questioned, tortured and killed. They have told how security forces destroyed crops and property in Dujail. And they have described being held for years in the Abu Ghraib prison.
The men on trial, however, say the witnesses have not named them as connected in anyway to these crimes. Iraqi and American officials planned the trial after American troops captured Saddam Hussein in 2003. The officials say holding the trial in the country provides a good example for a democratic Iraq.
But violence has interfered with the trial. Two defence lawyers have been killed. Another has resigned. And officials have said they discovered a plot to attack the courtroom. Also, one of the judges left the trial when he learn that one of the defendants had signed an oder for the death of his brother.
The defendants have shouted at the judges and other people at the courtroom. Saddam Hussein has denounced the court and told the judge to go to hell. On Wednesday, he refused to attend the trial. It continued without him. He has promised to be in court when the trial begins again on December twenty first.
The former president could be executed if found guilty of the Dujail killings. But Iraqi government lawyers are preparing twelve other cases that could be brought against him in the future.
In the News in VOA Special English was written by Nancy Steinbach. Our reports are on the web at voaspecialenglish.com. I''m Steve Ember.

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