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ABC News Headline
Welcome to World News. Tonight, black Friday 불길한 금요일 <예수가 처형당한 요일>. Oil goes sky high 하늘 높이, 매우 높이, stocks nose dive 폭락하다, and the number of people in the unemployment line jumps as tens of thousands of jobs disappear. Behind bars 옥중에서. The nation’s prisons are bursting at the seams <장소 등이> 터져 나갈 듯이 가득차다. A record number of prisoners is costing <~에게 얼마를> 들게 하다 billions forcing states to set convicts 죄수, 기결수 free. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson.
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Good evening. You can look for some glimmer 어렴풋한 이해, 암시 of good economic news today. But regrettably 유감스럽게도, you won’t find it. This has been a dreadful 무서운, 두려운 day. The price of oil which tended downward early in the week, jumped over $10 a barrel today, the largest single day increase ever, closing over $138 a barrel, the highest close ever.
Meanwhile, unemployment jumped half a percent in May. That’s the biggest one month increase in a quarter century. And the resulting gloom 우울, 침울 caused Wall Street to plummet 폭락하다. The DOW lost 400 points, the NASDAQ down 75. ABC’s Betsy Stark is here.
Charlie, hard to believe that just a couple of days ago, oil prices were falling, stocks were on the rise, and there was talk of the economy stabilizing 안정되다. Today, everywhere you looked, there was pain. Today’s nearly $11 leap in the price of oil was breathtaking 깜짝 놀라게 하는 even for a market accustomed to ~에 익숙해진 breaking records.
42-year-old Toni Flunois of St. Louis, a mother of five, lost her job at Commerce Bank after 19 years with the company and is struggling to ~하려고 애쓰다 find another. A weakening job market and rising energy prices are a lethal 치명적인 combination for consumers. For most, prices at the pump 주유소, <gas pump> are rising faster than their paychecks 급료. But not having any paycheck at all is what really worries them. Charlie?