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The world this week--Business[qh]
本周国际要闻--商业[qh]
As it adjusts to slower demand for its electric vehicles, Tesla is reportedly set to shed 10% of its global workforce, or around 14,000 jobs.[qh]
据报道，为了适应市场对电动汽车需求的放缓，特斯拉将全球裁员10%，即约1.4万个职位。[qh]
Adding to the woes of Elon Musk's firm, two senior executives said they were leaving.[qh]
令埃隆·马斯克的公司雪上加霜的是，两名高管表示他们将离职。[qh]
Tesla's deliveries fell in the first quarter of this year.[qh]
特斯拉今年第一季度的交付量有所下降。[qh]
As other carmakers, especially in China, step up their EV ambitions, Tesla is facing intense competition in markets that it used to have to itself a few years ago.[qh]
随着其他汽车制造商，尤其是中国的汽车制造商，加大电动汽车的雄心，特斯拉在市场上面临着激烈的竞争，而几年前市场还只属于自己。[qh]
Its share price is down by 37% this year.[qh]
其股价今年下跌了37%。[qh]
The company wants shareholders to reaffirm Mr Musk's pay at its annual general meeting in June, after a court in Delaware struck it down in January.[qh]
该公司希望股东在6月份的年度股东大会上重申马斯克的巨额薪酬，此前特拉华州的一家法院在1月份否决了这一提议。[qh]
The latest estimates from the IMF suggest that global GDP is on track to grow by 3.2% this year.[qh]
国际货币基金组织的最新估计显示，今年全球国内生产总值有望增长3.2%。[qh]
The fund said the world economy “remains remarkably resilient” and that there would be “less economic scarring” than it had thought from the pandemic.[qh]
国际货币基金组织表示，世界经济“仍具有很强的弹性”，疫情造成的“经济创伤”将比它预期的要小。[qh]
The biggest upgrades to its forecasts for the largest economies it tracks were for America, where the IMF now thinks gdp will expand by 2.7%, and Russia, projected to grow by 3.2%.[qh]
国际货币基金组织对其追踪的最大经济体进行了预测最大升级，美国和俄罗斯的GDP预计将分别增长2.7%和3.2%。[qh]
China's economy grew by a better-than-expected 5.3% in the first quarter of 2024, year on year, helped by a 6.1% rise in industrial production.[qh]
在工业生产增长6.1%的推动下，中国经济在2024年第一季度同比增长5.3%，好于预期。[qh]
Much of the growth came in January and February.[qh]
大部分增长发生在1月和2月。[qh]
In March retail sales struggled, and the output of cement plummeted, highlighting the problems besetting the country's property market.[qh]
3月份，零售销售举步维艰，水泥产量大幅下降，突显出困扰该国房地产市场的问题。[qh]
Markets were rattled by figures that showed retail sales growing rapidly in America, more evidence that the economy remains red-hot.[qh]
数据显示美国零售额快速增长，市场被其所震动，更多的证据表明经济仍然火热。[qh]
Investors pushed back their bets on an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve.[qh]
投资者推回了对美联储降息的赌注。[qh]
They were also perturbed by comments from Jerome Powell, the Fed's chairman, about inflation taking “longer than expected” to fall to the central bank's 2% target.[qh]
美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的评论也让他们感到不安，他说通货膨胀要“比预期的更久”才能降至央行2%的目标。[qh]
Britain's annual inflation rate slowed to 3.2% in March, from 3.4% in February.[qh]
英国的年通货膨胀率从2月份的3.4%降至3月份的3.2%。[qh]
Inflation is now lower in Britain than in America, where it is 3.5%, but higher than the Euro area, where it stands at 2.4%.[qh]
目前英国的通货膨胀率低于美国的3.5%，但高于欧元区的2.4%。[qh]
Still, the figures caused traders to think that the Bank of England might not reduce interest rates until September or November.[qh]
尽管如此，这些数据还是让交易员们认为，英国央行可能要到9月或11月才会降息。[qh]
Goldman Sachs released a set of quarterly earnings that at last delighted investors.[qh]
高盛公布了一系列季度收益，最终令投资者感到高兴。[qh]
Net profit surged by 28% in the first quarter, year on year, to $4.1bn, helped by a 32% jump in revenue from investment banking and a 10% rise in revenue from trading.[qh]
第一季度净利润同比增长28%，达到41亿美元，这得益于投资银行业务收入增长32%，交易业务收入增长10%。[qh]
The results take some of the pressure off David Solomon, the bank's chief executive, who faces a shareholder proposal at the impending annual general meeting to vote against his pay award.[qh]
上述业绩减轻了该行首席执行官戴维·所罗门的一些压力。在即将召开的年度股东大会上，股东提议对他的薪酬进行投票。[qh]
