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Wall Street edges down after recent rally; retailers weigh
受零售銷售數據打壓，華爾街股市小幅下降
[1] Wall Street slipped on Monday, pulling back from last week's gains, as retailers fell on concerns about heavy discounts at the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season and the overhang of the "fiscal cliff" kept investors wary of making big bets.
[1] 周一，華爾街股市小幅走低，沒有延續上周的漲勢，掉頭向下，因為零售銷售數據不佳，人們擔憂美國假日購物季會出現大幅折扣傾銷，另外，人們一想到懸在頭上的“財政懸崖”，總要謹小慎微，不敢在股市上下賭注。
[2] The Nasdaq outperformed to close higher, led by gains in eBay and as Apple continued its bounce back.
[2] 納斯達克市場表現尚好，走高報收，上漲的eBay（易趣）和蘋果（Apple）兩只股票表現搶眼，紛紛強勁反彈。
[3] The Standard & Poor's 500 cut most of its losses during the session and managed to stay above the psychologically important 1,400 level. It also remained above the 200-day moving average, maintaining its long-term uptrend.
[3]近幾個交易期間，標準普爾500收回了大部分失地，依然站在重要的心理點位1,400之上。而且該指數依然保住了200天的移動平均數，保持長期的上漲態勢。
[4] The S&P 500 consumer discretionary index fell 0.5 percent after the start of the holiday shopping season over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend.
[4]四天感恩節周末的瘋狂購物季啟動后，標準普爾非必需消費股指數(S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Index)走低了0.5個百分點。
[5] "The concern is big retailers are discounting so much, sales look better, but at what cost?" said Angel Mata, managing director of listed equity trading at Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets in Baltimore.
[5] 巴爾的摩的Stifel Nicolaus 資本市場上市股權交易部總經理安吉爾-馬塔表示：“人們普遍擔心大型零售商要大幅度削價傾銷，銷售是很火爆，但是利潤幾何呀？”
[6] Bucking the retail trend, shares of eBay closed at their highest in almost eight years, rising 4.9 percent to $51.40, as the online marketplace notched strong sales on "Cyber Monday." Amazon gained 1.6 percent to $243.62.
[6] 零售旺盛的勢頭大振，易趣（eBay）股價以8年來最高點報收，上漲了4.9%，收于$51.40，網路星期一（Cyber Monday）當天在線市場銷售火爆，取得不俗的銷售業績。亞馬遜股價上漲了1.6%，以$243.62的價位報收。
[7] The White House threw cold water on a proposal of avoiding the looming "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax highs by limiting tax deductions and loopholes, instead of allowing tax rates to rise for the richest Americans.
[7] 有人提議要避免迫在眉睫的 “債務懸崖”，因為限制稅收減免和避免出現漏洞而不是提高美國富人的納稅比率會導致削減開支和增加稅收，但這個提議沒有得到白宮的支持。
[8] Investors are hoping for advances in talks over the $600 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes scheduled to begin next year, which threaten to drag the U.S. economy back into recession.
[8] 投資者希望安排在明年啟動的高達$60億美元的削減開支和增加稅收的談判取得進展，這會關乎美國經濟，處理不好會將美國經濟再次拖入衰退狀況。
[9] Indications of progress in talks, or just political willingness to negotiate, contributed to the market's recent rally. Major indexes last week gained 3 to 4 percent, with the Dow above 13,000 and the S&P above 1,400 for the first time since November 6.
[10] 談判進展的種種跡象，或者說各黨派有政治意愿參與談判，這有助于市場近期的反彈。上周，各主要指數紛紛上周了3-4%，而且從11月6日以來，道指和標普都分別站上13,000點位和1,400 點。
[11] Those gains represented a turnaround from recent losses founded on worries about Washington's ability to solve budgetary problems.
[11] 由于近期市場人士對華盛頓是否有足夠的能力解決預算問題表示擔憂，從而導致近期市場的下跌趨勢，但本周的上漲態勢則反映出對下跌趨勢的大逆轉。
