澳大利亚第二季度经济增长缓慢

海量资料下载 免费学习英语 www.englishvip.com/xinlw.htm （申请网址） Australia's economic growth rate slowed in the second quarter amid a drop global demand for its resources and lacklustre domestic consumption. 对资源的国际需求降低与萎靡的国内消费导致了第二季度澳大利亚经济增长趋势缓慢。   Growth was 3.7% in the April to June period, from a year earlier. That is down from 4.3% annual growth in the same period last year.   Compared with the previous quarter, the economy expanded by 0.6%.   There are fears that Australia's growth may slow further as demand for its resources slows.   "We are moving into a fairly risky phase of the Australian economy with the mining sector looking a bit ragged," said Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP Capital Investors.   Mining worries   Australia's mining sector has been one of the biggest drivers of its growth in recent years.   However, slowing growth in key markets such as China and India has hurt demand for Australia's resources and impacted the sector's growth.    To make matters worse, prices of commodities such as iron ore have also fallen in recent months, hurting mine companies' profits.   That has forced some companies to put their expansion plans on hold, hurting investment in the economy.    In the past few days, BHP Billiton and Fotescue Metal Group, two of Australia's biggest miners, have announced a delay in expanding their facilities in Australia.    Analysts said the combination of all these factors was having a negative impact on Australia's growth and that if commodity prices（商品价格） do not improve it may hurt long-term growth.   "If the iron ore price stays where it is, then there is a real threat to growth in 2013," said Mr Oliver of AMP Capital.   Iron ore prices have fallen almost 30% in just the last two months. “成千上万人疯狂下载。。。。。。 更多价值连城的绝密英语学习资料， 洛基内部秘密英语，技巧，策略 请在 网上 申请报名” 洛基国际英语 竭诚为您服务