1. The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in May. In the same month, new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low, despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.
翻译：5月份主要经济指标指数下降0.3%。同月，新房销售量跌至12个月以来的最低点，尽管抵押贷款利率达到20年来的最高点。
知识点：leading economic indicators主要经济指标
修改：leading economic indicators领先指标指数
2. In one such report, Commerce said last week that its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.
翻译：商业部上周的一份报告表示，其主要经济指标指数在七月有力地上涨了1.2%。
修改：强势上升
3. “…World Bank Managing Director Richard Frank said in a statement that the ＄52 billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama administration--which includes ＄17 billion from the International Monetary Fund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after the government devalued the peso in December.”
翻译：“…世界银行常务董事理查德·弗兰克在一份声明中说，奥巴马政府推行的520亿美元的国际救援计划——包括国际货币基金组织的170亿美元————将解决十二月墨西哥政府使货币贬值后，墨西哥爆发短期的金融危机。”
知识点：World Bank Managing Director世界银行常务董事
devalue 贬值
修改：奥巴马政府募集到
4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at 2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its October low.
翻译：道琼斯工业平均指数本周收报2909.1点，比过去四周上涨6.3%（544点），相比十月最低点上涨23%。
5. The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 120 points on Friday.
翻译：上周五道琼斯工业指数暴跌120点，股市糟糕的表现说明所谓的经济复苏还没有到来。
问题：这句话如何直译？
修改：上周五，道琼斯平均工业指数大跌120点，可见，股市对经济复苏明显信心不足/不看好。
6. March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
翻译：三月份棉花收盘下跌0.46美分至85.30美分。
修改：……报85.30美分。
7. The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the lowest level in seven years.
8. 翻译：德意志银行将贴现率降至3.5%，这是七年来的最低水平。
知识点：discount rate贴现率
指中央银行贷给商业银行、贴现银行或其他金融中介用作储备基金款项的收费利率
9. The number of workers in the United States applying for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a month.
翻译：美国申请国家失业救济金的人数达到历史最高水平，这一现象已持续数月。
知识点：state unemployment benefits国家失业救济金
10. Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.
翻译：出口顺差为725亿4000万欧元，去年同期为477亿1000万欧元。
知识点：Export surplus出口顺差
11. The December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its previous closing of 117-11/32.
翻译：十二月国债期货合约于今天以117-13/32在日本市场结束，上一次收盘为117-11 / 32。
知识点：T-bond futures国债期货