About this episode
Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News.
Tai-Ex opening
The Tai-Ex opened up 124-points this morning from yesterday's close, at
31,371 on turnover of 9.7-billion N-T.
The market moved sharply lower on Wednesday following heavy losses on Wall
Street overnight.
Analysts say investors opted to dump their holdings in panic as sentiment was
hit by the big losses on U-S indexes overnight.
While Wednesday was also the settlement date for January futures contracts,
so selling increased, with foreign institutional investors holding more
short-position contracts than long-position ones … and tech stocks remained
the targets of the sell-off.
DPP finalizes candidates for Chiayi County, Tainan and Kaohsiung elections
The D-P-P has finalized its candidates for key mayoral positions in southern
Taiwan.
According to the party, it has approved Lai Jui-lung as the D-P-P's candidate
for the Kaohsiung mayoral election, Tsai Yi-yu as its candidate for the post
of Chiayi County magistrate, and Chen Ting-fei as its Tainan mayoral
candidate,.
Final approval for all three candidates was made during a meeting of the
D-P-P's s Central Executive Committee.
President Lai Ching-te, who doubles as the party chairman, says he hopes the
candidates will integrate (??) local efforts and support other party
members seeking office in November's local elections.
Rescuers spot wreckage from Japanese sightseeing helicopter carrying 2 Taiwanese tourists
Rescuers in Japan have spotted wreckage (??) believed to be from a
sightseeing helicopter that was carrying two Taiwanese tourists and a
Japanese pilot that went missing near one of Japan's most active volcanoes
Authorities say the helicopter lost contact during what should have been a
10-minute flight over Mount Aso in southern Japan on Monday.
According to local police, the wreckage, possibly of the missing helicopter,
was spotted inside the crater of Nakadake, one of Mt. Aso's five peaks.
However, officials had said bad weather and high levels of volcanic gases
were hampering (??) the rescue operation.
Taiwan's representative office in Fukuoka says it was notified of a
helicopter crash involving the two Taiwanese tourists immediately after the
accident occurred.
Supreme Court looks set to reject Trump's bid to control Fed
US President Donald Trump's bid to control the US central bank looks set to
be rejected by the Supreme Court.
During arguments on Wednesday, jus
