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• 1 Numbers and figures

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• When a number is used before a noun - like an adjective - it is always singular

  A fifty-minute lesson

  A sixteen-week semester

  A fifteen-minute walk

  A twenty-pound reduction

  A six billion dollar loan

• 2 Finance and trade

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• FTSE (Footsie) The Financial Times Stock Exchange index

  London

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average

  New York (long-established old economy companies)

• Big increases in value ... famous companies with a history of profit in good and bad economic times

  Spectacular gains, blue chips

  "Shares that were worth €15 and are now worth €110"

  "Shares in companies like IBM, Kodak, and Procter and Gamble"

• The total value of shares listed on the market going down by 10 per cent

  10 per cent of total market capitalization

• The original amount an institution borrows from a bondholder

  Principle

• The interest a bondholder receives

  Coupon

• A share of the profits of a company paid once or twice a year to the people who own the company's shares

  Dividend

• A document given to someone who invests money in a government or company. promising to pay back the money with interest

  Bond

• 3 Describing economic trends

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• Transitive or intransitive: We cut/lowered/raised/reduced the budget

  Transitive, it needs an object