Oil prices have more than doubled from the low point they hit in the spring, but are still around half the all-time high of nearly $150 a barrel they reached in early summer last year.

比起今春的价格低谷，油价如今已涨了一倍多，但这仍只是去年初夏创纪录的每桶近150美元价格的一半左右。

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Greek 10-year borrowing costs touched a high of 7.161 per cent, up more than half a percentage point on the day, before closing at 6.995 per cent.

希腊10年期借贷成本昨天一度触及7.161%的高点，当日上涨逾0.5个百分点，收盘时报6.995%。

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Much of that value vanished in less than a year, as the index fell about 70% from last year's all-time high of 6124.04 to Thursday's low point of about 1802.

然而在不到一年的时间里，市值就损失大半，上证综合指数也从去年创出的6124.04点的历史高点下跌了约70%，一路下挫至周四的1802点低点。

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The investiture of the new king before a joint session of parliament later in the day will be the high point of a year of celebrations marking the end of the Napoleonic occupation in 1813.

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