VOA慢速英語: 希臘金融危機，中國在東亞股市舉足輕重

Share prices mostly fell on Asian stock markets Monday after Greek voters rejected a European financial plan requiring new cost-cutting measures.

繼希臘公投否決一項新的要求削減成本的措施后，亞洲大部分股市隨之下降。

Investors talk at a brokerage house in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, July 3, 2015. China's stock markets have had been decreasing since June.

Japan’s main measure of stock prices, the Nikkei index, lost more than two percent. However, Japan’ s Chief Cabinet Secretary said events in Greece had a limited effect on stock prices in his country. YoshihideSuga said “the ties between Japan and Greece economically and in the financial markets are very limited.” He also said he believed the 19 countries using the euro as money would, “take responsible actions to address the Greek situation.”

日本主要股市指數(shù)——日經(jīng)指數(shù)降幅超過2%。然而，日本內(nèi)閣官房長官菅義偉稱希臘對本國股市影響有限。他表示，日希兩國在經(jīng)濟上和金融上的聯(lián)系都是有限的，他相信使用歐元的19個國家將會承擔(dān)責(zé)任并幫助解決希臘困難。

Other major stock indexes in East Asia also fell. South Korea’s Kospi index fell two percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 3.2 percent -- its largest drop in more than three years. Concerns over the effects of the vote in Greece may have been partly to blame. But fallings tock prices in China also concerned investors. Mainland China is Hong Kong’s biggest trading partner.

東亞其它股票指數(shù)也在下降。韓國綜合股價指數(shù)下降兩個百分點。香港恒生指數(shù)下降篇幅達(dá)3.2%——這是它三年以來降幅最大的一次。擔(dān)心希臘公投影響可能是股市下降的部分原因，但是中國股價下跌仍是投資者擔(dān)心的問題。中國大陸是香港最大的貿(mào)易伙伴。

On the mainland, stock price measures were mixed. The Shanghai stock exchange index rose over two percent after many days of declining prices.

在中國大陸，股價指數(shù)漲跌互現(xiàn)。上證指數(shù)在連日下跌后上漲超過2%。

The recent drop in Chinese stock prices is the sharpest in 20 years. Shares on Chinese markets have lost more than 20 percent of their value -- or $3trillion dollars -- since June 12.

中國股市下降是20年來降幅最為兇猛的一次。中國股票市值自6.12號以來已下降20%，損失額達(dá)到3萬億美元。

Financial experts say smaller investors are fleeing the stock market and investing in housing and other real estate.

金融專家稱小投資商已撤出股市，轉(zhuǎn)而投資房地產(chǎn)業(yè)。

On Saturday, a group of 21 brokerage companies said it would use $19billion to buy shares in an effort to support stock prices. The move issupported by money borrowed from China’s central bank.

周六，21個經(jīng)紀(jì)公司表示愿意出資190億美元拯救股市。這筆資金來自中國中央銀行。

But any efforts to support prices are small in comparison to the total value of the current loses. Tony Nash is an economist working in Singapore.

然而，任何拯救股市的行為相對于目前大幅度降幅來說都是杯水車薪。托尼·納什是新加坡的一位經(jīng)濟學(xué)家，他表示，

“You can’t inject 120 (yuan) billion every weekend. The markets lostsomething like $3 trillion over the last couple of months -- that that’s a drop in the bucket compared to what would be needed to prop that market up.”

你不可能每周末都諸如120億美元。在過去的幾個月中，股市跌了近3萬億美元。相對于支撐起整個市場，注入資金只是杯水車薪。

Falling stock prices also have discouraged new stock offerings. Nearly 30Chinese companies have postponed their first stock sale to the public. Thestock value decline reverses a year of strong gains for Chinese stocks, whichmore than doubled in value over the period.

股市下降還影響新股上市。中國近30家公司推遲了他們第一支股票出售時間。股市下跌扭轉(zhuǎn)了中國股市之前的強勢局面，那時中國幣值增加一倍以上。

Scott Kennedy is with the Centers for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He said, in the past, the stock market represented only a smallpart of China’s economy. Now, that has changed. Still, he believes the countrywill reach its goal of seven percent economic growth this year.

斯科特·肯尼迪來自華盛頓的國際數(shù)據(jù)研究中心。他表示，過去股市僅僅是中國市場的一小部分，現(xiàn)在情況變了。他相信，中國今年仍然能達(dá)到增長七個百分點的增長目標(biāo)。

I’m Mario Ritter.

馬里奧·利特為您報道。

This story is based on reporting from VOA’s Steve Herman and VictorBeattie. Mario Ritter wrote it for VOA Learning English. George Grow was theeditor.

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Words in This Story

index– n. a way of measuring the value of a group of securities or stocks

brokerage(s) –n. a company that trades in stocks and other financialinstruments or securities

discouraged– adj. to get in the way of or to prevent from taking place

a drop in the bucket– idiom an addition so small that it does not have an effect