国外媒体:IMF悲观展望世界经济;Apple一季度盈利增加

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国际货币基金组织预计，今年全球经济将下滑1.3%，失业率会持续上升。

The International Monetary¹ Fund has again downgraded its forecast for the world economy. It's predicted a decline of 1.3% this year and a continued rising unemployment. The IMF's chief economist² Olivier Blanchard said things were very bad, but said without recent government action to boost spending and tackle the banking³ crisis, they could've been catastrophic.

"Fiscal⁴ policies have made a gigantic difference. Our estimate is that if there had been no fiscal stimulus⁵ across the world, world growth in 2009 would be somewhere between 1.5% and 2% less than what we predicted. Therefore we would be in the middle of something very close to depression."

与此同时，苹果公司汇报了高达15%的第一季度盈利增长。

The American technology company Apple has reported a rise in its quarterly profit of 15% despite the global economic downturn. Apple's net income from January to March exceeded market expectations at more than 1.2 billion dollars. Sales were up nearly 9% with the iPhone selling twice as well as a year ago. Although sales of the Macintosh computer range were down.

World News from the BBC.