英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-10-30

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And Beijing has criticised the Federal Government for upholding a decision to lock out Chinese telco giant at the National Broadband Network. Huawei was banned from tendering for work on the NBN by the previous Labor¹ government because of security concerns. 

A spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry² says countries should not use national security as a tool to interfere³ with world trade. 

 

The Australian dollar has fallen on the back of a speech from the Reserve Bank governor. Glenn Stevens says Australia's terms of trade are likely to fall rather than rise in the near term. 

He warned investors⁴ of fluctuations⁵ in the dollar present risks and that the dollar will likely trend lower in the future. The Australian dollar was sold off by half a per cent against the greenback after that speech was posted online. 

 

To the markets. 

The Dow rose 111 points. The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 are up as well. In London, the FTSE climbed 49 points overnight. Looking at commodity prices. West Texas Crude is trading at 98 US dollars a barrel. And Tapis is at 117 US dollars a barrel. Gold is worth 1345 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying 95 US cents, 69 Euro cents and 59 Pence sterling⁶.

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