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It seems that investment banks are not so lucrative as before, especially under new government requirements and with risk control objectives.
But I think it's still an attractive industry with new graduates swarming into. So you can imagine how profitable it was in old days!

Considering  the  factor  of  Internet ,  I will make comments  sometime  although  all the texts were made it .
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For short, this article shows us the truth why investment banks that angels fear to trade.
But it's really hard work to read so long a article... Could you tell me where did you read the article? The Economist? Thanks a lot~
4,3,feel pity for the second day...

记不得第几次了亲！反正期期必来，看了很受益。个人认为坚持reading 巩固所学，必日益精深。

2 days~ tired...

5,5 never give up!

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It is a little diffict for me.
American banks are already reining back on the risk-taking parts of their business and trying to expand in areas that use less capital.

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For this article, the author intends to convey an idea that big investment bankings need more internal control to cope with the tough tasks with the dynamic environment.Another intersting point is that picture above.It seems that GOD draw a line between the farmers and the so-called elites.Social ladder in our society is always the incentive force.
Ps:I have some suggestions：
FIRST：we can use five-star scale to show the degree of the difficulty of the article.
SECOND:Addtional awards should be awarded to those very active "students", maybe one month can be a round.
English corner is very useful for us,perseverance should be noticed.

3,3  很长，先看一半吧

I really want to follow you，but reading on the computer screen is so tired， any good idea？

第二次，一直没找到来着！

insist on !!

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If a bank could not be sure of the health of its own balance-sheet, how could it trust those of other banks?
如果银行不能肯定自身的资产负债表运行良好，怎么会相信其他银行的？

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This is not the first time i do the "follow me", but this is the first time i give the comments.
It's hard for me to understand this article for it has so many words that i don't know. However, I decide to keep on until i finish this article. And i will do the "follow me" in the following days.
And i also wish that everyone should insist on doing this. It is not only a good way to learn english, but also a good way to know the latest financial news, and also a platform to share your opinions with others.

哎 没看太懂~~~求翻译~~~

(55)   I have read it three times,although I have learn about the meaning of this article,I do not analysis it with the Angle of economics.
The bank should cooperate with the government and make good use of   its regulator! we need strengthening of credit education and sound credit system !

我都是打印出来精读的 5  5.。谢谢楼主

看得很里吃  要好好学英语

5,5 hold on!
it is so hard for me to unerdstand this article, so many new words ,long sentence,long article, i have total lost,
mark it first,and read it again next time.

第一次看啊，。英语不好慢慢看

看不懂。。。

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Yesterday morning when i was preparing to do the article, I found none and I supposed that there would weekends off for this program. But later on when I back to this BBS, I found that 5-14 version but the day was 5-15.
Thus today, when I see this article, it is pretty hard to understand cause there are terminologies and sophiscated sentences. Hope that I can reach a good understanding of this article. Thanks LZ~~

Follow u 5 5
Got a cold today, could not read as before~but I will keep on reading next!

I am holding on

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I have read many times，but finally dont understand。。。

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遗憾啊，还是在坚持方面有问题。。。

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After the financial crisis,the profits of many investment banks are reduced,The author in this passage analysed three main threatening factors.That is higher capital ratio which has the greastest impact, the apply of “Volcker rule” and restrictions on the pay and bonuses they offer employees.Each one has its own influences on the economy and financial markets.Indeed investment bank is not as simple as it seems.

4 4 太难 太长...

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The Volcker Rule (also known as the "Volcker Plan") is a proposal by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments if they are not on behalf of their customers. Volcker has argued that such speculative activity played a key role in the financial crisis of 2007–2010.(By Wikepedia)

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Brad Hintz, an analyst at Bernstein Research in New York, said in a research note that the new capital standards would roughly halve the profitability of sales and trading businesses in American investment banks, which would leave them unable to cover their cost of capital.
Switzerland has placed itself at the extreme end of a spectrum of higher capital charges, and is thus likely to see its big banks shrink more than most.
The first is that when investment banks can no longer smooth out their earnings with timely sales of bonds, their profitability will probably become more volatile rather than more stable.
Property prices in expensive parts of London will probably benefit, but it is not clear that the export of risk from America will make the global banking system safer.
And if their divisions subsequently post losses, those payments may be reduced or even cancelled.
There have been mutterings that the two big Swiss banks may try to work out ways of circumventing regulation at home by listing their investment banks abroad. Similar rumblings are heard in London.
Yet an enduring lesson of the crisis is that wholesale money markets can dry up from one day to the next.
上面的句子有些是因为句子本身，而有些是因为内容，所以摘取下来，follow you 版主！