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By Brendan Conway
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: s3 W# M3 }/ D$ U2 U, T5 ?由于美联储对经济前景悲观的预测,和害怕全球经济衰退,投资者们抛售股票,买美金和政府国库卷,致使10年国库卷回报率降至1940年来最低点。
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) L# m, O: [2 M4 J美联储计划在2012六月份前买回400 billion政府长期债卷,同时抛售短期债卷. 这个号称“Operation Twist" 的计划,受到中央银行灰暗的评论,宣称有"significant downside risks" to the global economy.
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星期三投资者开始跌价抛售,星期四道琼斯掉了455点,或4.1%,欧洲斯托克掉了4.6%,香港恒生调了4。9%,加拿大TSX掉了3%。- u4 w/ U' Z: [( F( ^4 P d
( [2 c8 k# ]5 z! ]& H- N美金对EURO增值1%,黄金掉了3%, 到$1740 an ounce.
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, @( J$ z) Y/ INEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Investors staged a flight from risk in global markets that sent U.S. stocks plummeting and 10-year Treasury yields to 1940s levels, after a gloomy outlook by the Federal Reserve renewed fears of a global economic slowdown. / l1 |8 z6 s$ L, Y
% e0 Y3 J! h7 t$ p5 [5 v6 uU.S. stocks hit successive lows throughout Thursday's session as investors sold off assets perceived as "risky" and fled to the dollar and government bonds. The selloff started Wednesday. The Fed moved to increase the share of longer-dated Treasurys within its portfolio by $400 billion by June 2012, while selling shorter-term paper. But the planned effort, which investors dubbed "Operation Twist," was overshadowed by a gloomy statement from the central bank noting "significant downside risks" to the global economy. The Fed also noted "strains" in global financial markets, widely interpreted as a reference to Europe's sovereign-debt crisis.! V! f2 j4 [ h X. ]
1 u# Z1 z/ x$ C' w O& rThe Dow Jones Industrial Average was near its lows recently, down 455 points, or 4.1%, at 10671, a day after shedding 284 points. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 45 points, or 3.9%, to 1122, and the technology-oriented Nasdaq Composite slumped 99 points, or 3.9%, to 2440. ; Q: Y5 k6 w! R6 ^ z
, M9 C2 M- V5 M# I. tEuropean stocks closed sharply lower. The Stoxx Europe 600 shed 4.6% to hit the lowest level in more than two years in intraday trading. Asian bourses also dropped sharply, with China's Shanghai Composite losing 2.8% on news that manufacturing activity in China contracted in September. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slid 4.9%. W' t1 T6 z; `" f/ _3 w- h5 r
% q/ B5 e7 L. V1 iAs investors spurned equities, they fled to the dollar. The U.S. currency jumped nearly 1% versus the euro in morning action. In the afternoon, the euro rebounded from its deepest trough since mid-January at $1.3384, trading about a cent higher in afternoon dealings. The dollar was the winner, if only by default.: A% X6 @ ?3 g, d6 O) J
( D( q/ D- v& \$ V+ |% O9 q+ yInvestors also piled into the safety of Treasury securities, pushing down the benchmark 10-year note's yield to the lowest since the 1940s. In recent trade, the 10-year note yielded 1.7206%. ( x$ p s& S" V$ S9 H. ~7 @' N
/ n6 h& ]6 m( ^; a: v1 k5 [, Z, d dGold slumped to a four-week low, under pressure from a surging U.S. dollar as investors turned to cash amid worries about a global slowdown. Gold for December delivery traded 3.7% lower in the afternoon at $1,740.80 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. |
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