영어뉴스 공부하기 : Bayer warns of falling profits as costs bite

# Bayer has warned of falling profits ahead. The German agriculture and healthcare giant says it’s suffering as inflation drives costs higher. It’s also seen prices for its weedkillers fall after they had jumped last year. Now Bayer says this year’s earnings will go no higher than about $13.8 billion. That would be around half a billion down on 2022. The number sent Bayer shares down by as much as five percent in Tuesday trade, though the stock later recovered some ground.

 

* warn of : 경고 => 가능성

* profit 영업이익

* bite = hit 깨물거나, 치거나

* suffer : 자동사 = have difficulty/trouble 고전하고 있다, 어려움을 겪고 있다

* driver/send costs higher

* 제초재 : weedkiller(s)

* no higher than 이것보다 더 높이는 안 간다 = 딱 요정도 = only 의 느낌이 있다.

* That would be ~ 그렇게 된다면

* send sth up/down

* as much as 무려

* recover ground 입지회복

* gain/lose ground 입지탄탄/입지를 잃다

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# The figures will ramp up pressure on incoming chief executive Bill Anderson, who’s due to take over in June. He’s under pressure from some investors to break up the firm. Bayer also faces an ongoing headache over U.S. lawsuits alleging that it’s weedkillers caused cancer. It says the legal actions will cost it up to about $3.2 billion this year. The firm denies all suggestion that its products are unsafe and says regulators support that view. However, it has already had to pay out over $9 billion to settle legal claims.

 

* ramp up = boost 올리다

* incoming 신임

* 퇴임예정 outgoing

* break up the firm 기업분할

* allege 주장하다

* up to 최대

*suggestion 확실치 않는 것 = allegation

* pay out : 거액의 지출

* settle 합의