每日晨读金融时报 23Dec2022 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

【今日短语】复习：risk offThis is when investors put their money into less risky investments such as government bonds, investment-grade corporate bonds, high-dividend stocks, and gold.----------------------------原文如下：The day in the marketsby  Tommy Stubbington(来自：The Financial Time 金融时报)What you need to know• US stocks rise as markets digest Bank of Japan policy change• Bonds steady after investors sense BoJ is softening policy stance• Yen marginally weaker against dollar after previous session’s surgeStocks climbed yesterday and global bond markets steadied following a heavy sell-off sparked by the Bank of Japan’s unexpected decision to relax its policy of pinning yields close to zero.On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 both advanced 1.4 per cent.Equities across the Atlantic also rose with the Stoxx Europe 600 index closing 1.7 per cent higher.The gains came as stability returned to government bonds, which on Tuesday were rocked by the BoJ’s announcement that it would allow 10-year Japanese yields to climb as high as 0.5 per cent compared with 0.25 per cent previously.The US 10-year Treasury yield was little changed at 3.68 per cent, having earlier touched a three-week high of 3.71 per cent, despite a continued sell-off in Japanese government debt. UK and German bond yields were also steady.While BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda stressed that Tuesday’s move was not a shift away from Japan’s ultra-loose monetary policy, investors sensed a crack in the central bank’s resolve to stand apart from the global dash to higher interest rates.“The BoJ has taken a first step toward tighter monetary policy,” said Ulrich Leuchtmann, currency strategist at Commerzbank.The yen was marginally weaker yesterday at ¥132.40 to the dollar following an increase of almost 4 per cent on Tuesday.The currency was likely to rise further as Japanese investors sold dollar holdings to buy Japanese debt, drawn by the rise in yields, said George Saravelos, strategist at Deutsche Bank.“The BoJ policy shift (despite Governor Kuroda’s claims to the contrary) should start to put the Japanese wall of money to work,” Saravelos said. “There is a lot to move.”The BoJ’s decision came after US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell said there was “more work to do” in taming US inflation after increasing interest rates last week while Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said it was “not done” raising rates.“The Fed, ECB and BoJ have all delivered hawkish surprises over the past week,” said Steve Englander, head of G10 FX research at Standard Chartered, pointing out that moves by the most influential central banks had added a “risk-off flavour” to markets heading into the Christmas period.

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