澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-03-18

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A former senior employee of the Commonwealth¹ Bank has been arrested and charged after a bribery² investigation³ involving New South Wales police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sixy-one-year-old was arrested yesterday and charged with two counts of bribery. One and a half million US dollars and suspected corrupt⁴ payments have been frozen. Detectives have asked the FBI to help find another manager who is currently overseas. In the statement the Commonwealth Bank says they'll fully⁵ cooperate while the investigation continues as there is no customer has been affected⁶ by this matter.

China is now the world's third largest exporter of arms after the US and Russia according to a new report. THe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has found China's military export has increased by one hundred and forty-three percent over the past decade. Three Asian countries, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, accounted for more than two thrirds of those exports.

Well US stocks have pulled back an anticipation⁷ of announcement from the chair of the US Federal Reserve Jannet Yellon over wheterh or not the US central bank will raise interest rate in June. At the close the Dowe had fallen one hundred and twenty=eight points, the NASDAQ was steady, and the S&P 500 had dropped slightly. In London the FTSE had reached its higher extending its gains from yesterday.

Checking commodity prices. The WTC is trading at 43 US dollars a barrel, Tapies crude is trading at 55 US dollars a barrel, and gold is trading at 1149 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying 76 US cents, 72 euro cents, and 52 pence sterling⁸.

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澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-03-18

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