미 금융시장 격변, 리먼 파산, 메릴린치 매각
ABC News Headline
Welcome to World News. Tonight, stocks plummet 폭락하다. The worst day on Wall Street in 6 years as one of Wall Street’s largest investment firms goes bankrupt 파산하다 and another is bought out <재산 등을> 돈을 주고 포기하게 하다. And yet it could have been worse. Ike’s aftermath 여파. A first look at areas ravaged 파괴하다, 황폐화하다 by the hurricane shows many homes were simply washed away. Millions are still without power and supplies are scarce 부족한.
Train wreck <열차 등의> 충돌, 파괴. The death toll 사망자수 rises in the LA commuter rail disaster. Technology exists to prevent such accidents. Why wasn’t it in place? And say a prayer 기도. One woman’s remarkable recovery has mystified 어리둥절하게 하다 doctors. Was it luck or was it the power of prayer? From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson.
미 금융시장 격변, 리먼 파산, 메릴린치 매각
Good evening. It doesn’t take a financial expert to appreciate 인식하다 how rough and tumble 허물어지다 this day was on Wall Street. The market held together for much of the day with only a two to three hundred point loss. And then at the end of the trading day, the bottom fell out. And in the final moments, the DOW dropped to a 504-point loss.
Financial institutions are in trouble. 158-year-old Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy 파산 신청하다. Stock giant Merrill Lynch was sold after just 2 days of discussions. It is all a bit dizzying 현기증이 날 것 같은. Betsy Stark is here with more.
It was a day for the history books on Wall Street. “You go to sleep on Friday and you wake up on Monday and things are just completely turned around.” Outside Lehman Brothers’ headquarters 본사 in Manhattan today, shell-shocked <지나친 스트레스로> 머리가 혼란된 employees, thousands of whom will lose their jobs, wondered how it could’ve happened. “It’s very hard to imagine that a place like Lehman would come down like this.” Yeah. Do you worry about what’s going to happen next? “Uh, yes, everybody’s worried.”