日期：2008-11-04 办妥了按揭贷款，请了律师，陈先生今天终于正式签订了买房合约。下面是他签约的过程： S--Solicitor Mr. White 律师怀特先生 B--Client 1 Mr. Chen 客户一 陈先生 C--Client 2 Mrs. Chen 客户二 陈太太 S: Good morning. Mr. and Mrs. Chen. How are you? 早上好，陈先... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 英文： British couple who hold the world record for the longest marriage British couple who hold the world record for the longest marriage said on Wednesday their success was down to a glass of whisky, a glass of sherry and the word sorry. Percy and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 英文： China market-boosting measures seen offset by faster fund-raising - analyst The motives behind apparent government attempts to stimulate the domestic stock market remain obscure, but it is clear that the government is not just aiming to gener... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 英文： Yulon group in China tieups with DaimlerChysler/Mitsubishi, Nissan/Renault Yulon group said it will tie up with DaimlerChrysler AG, the Mitsubishi group, Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co Ltd in the China market. Yulon group CEO Kenneth Yen said... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Citizens Financial Group (Providence, RI) was a 'Top 25' bank insurance operation last year. That is not likely to be the case in the future.With its announcement yesterday (March 1) that it was selling three insurance agencies to Hub International... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 The OECD is an international organization that developed from the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (EECD), which was created in 1948. The OECD was established in 1961 in an effort for developed nations to study and implement economic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Many people have two accounts in a bank: a savings account and a checking account. When people deposit money in a savings account, it earns interest. They can withdraw their savings any time, unless it is a special notice account. A special notice a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 In big cities, Americans do their grocery shopping at large supermarkets. They usually shop once or twice a week, and when they go through the check-out stand, their shopping carts are full of groceries. 在大城市，美国人在大型超市购买食品杂货。他们... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Estimates indicate that more than 60 percent of the yearly retail sales in the U.S. are credit transactions. About three-fourths of these credit sales are made on the installment plan. More than half of the automobiles, furniture, and household appl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Union Bank of California, N.A. (San Francisco) has named Michael A. Janes as chief executive officer of its insurance subsidiary, UnionBanc Insurance Services Inc., one of the 30 largest insurance agencies in the United States. Janes joins the agenc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Missouri's First Bank Acquires Insurance Brokerage First Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Banks, Inc. (St. Louis), has acquired Adrian N. Baker Company, a large, privately owned independent insurance brokerage company based in Clayton, Misso... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 China is unlikely to allow foreign investors to purchase controlling stakes in its small and medium-sized banks, leaving Citigroup's bid to buy stakes in China's Guangdong Development Bank hanging. A source close to the banking regulator said that C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Growing dominance of banks in commercial insurance One can see the growing dominance of banks when it comes to the distribution of property and casualty (PC) commercial insurance, observes John Wepler, president of MarshBerry (Concord, OH). Twenty-f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 A Surge of Insurance Revenues at First Niagara A key goal at First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (assets: $8.06 billion) is to derive 30 percent of revenues from fee income within three to five years. Or so the Lockport, New York-based thrift compan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Guaranty Bank (Austin, TX) reported $66.8 million in insurance commissions and fees in 2005, up 42 percent from $47 million in 2004, according to the upcoming issue Singer's Annuity Funds Report. This will likely place Guaranty among the top 20 'ban... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Multinational Companies Adjust Strategies to China China is Now a Key Area in the Global Strategies of Multinational Companies Once upon a time, multinational companies were very sober-minded about investing in China. Of the large German and Japanes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 China's Economy China's economy held the line on growth in 1999, mainly with government assistance, as the economy continues to suffer from the effects of massive, and accelerating, restructuring. The coming year could see some improvement, though t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 MT Bank Corporation (Buffalo, NY) has 650 bank branches up and down the Mid-Atlantic Coast, from Virginia to New York. It would like to have property and casualty insurance agencies throughout its footprint. Toward that end, the $55 billion (assets)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Multinational Companies Accelerating the Sales Strategy Rearrangement There is a new trend in the investment by multinational enterprises: to shift their businesses and technical transformation to establishing production bases, the core strategy is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-04 Notes 1.restructure vt.to alter the makeup or pattern of重建，改组 2.the Third Plenary Session of the CPC 11th Central Committee中国共产党第十一届中央委员会第三次全体会议 plenary adj. (指会议)全体出席的 session n.会议 3.to shift the policy stress to... 阅读全文>>