【英文报刊翻译080322】IMF：大宗商品价格高涨部分原因是投机

COMMODITY PRICES PART SPECULATIVE - IMF
By Javier Blas
Friday, March 21, 2008

The strength of commodities prices, such as crude oil, this year is explained in a large part by speculative factors such as investors piling into the new asset class and the weakness of the US dollar, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
国际货币基金组织(IMF)周四称，原油等大宗商品的价格今年之所以相当坚挺，很大程度上是由于投机因素（例如投资者涌入这一新的资产级别）以及美元疲软。

The warning came as commodities prices fell across the board, with oil prices dropping below the $100 a barrel level, gold prices tumbling 10 per cent from their recent record above $1,000 a troy ounce and sharp falls in base metals and grains.
目前，大宗商品价格正全线下挫，原油价格跌至每桶100美元以下，黄金价格从每盎司逾1000美元的近期高点大跌10%，而基础金属与谷物价格也均出现重挫。

Commodities prices fell as investors, who have poured record amounts of money into raw materials so far this year, cut leverage and fled into cash and short-term US treasuries and bonds. The yield of the three-months US Treasury fell to a 50-year low of 0.56 per cent on Wednesday.
今年迄今为止，投资者向原材料市场投入的资金已达创纪录水平，而随着他们解除杠杆头寸，逃入现金与短期美国国债及债券市场，大宗商品价格出现下跌。周三，3月期美国国债的收益率跌至0.56%，为50年来的新低。

John Reade, metals strategist at UBS in London, said: "It seems as if large-scale deleveraging is occurring across many asset classes and commodities - as profitable and recently fashionable trades - are being caught up in this trend."

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