Standard and Poor’s, the credit rating agency, earlier delivered another blow to Spanish confidence by cutting the country’s sovereign credit rating by two notches, predicting that a recession already under way this year would continue into 2013.
信用评级机构标准普尔(S and P)早些时候把西班牙的主权信用评级调降了两级,再次打击了人们对西班牙的信心。标普预测,西班牙今年已经开始的经济衰退将持续到2013年。
The downgrade shook eurozone financial markets yesterday morning, helping to push up Italian borrowing costs in an auction of government bonds, and slightly increasing Spanish yields in the secondary market.
此次降级在昨日早间对欧元区金融市场造成冲击,抬高了意大利拍卖的一批国债的借贷成本,二级市场中西班牙国债的收益率也略有上升。
“The worry is that this is unlikely to be an isolated downgrade,” said Matt King, a senior strategist at Citigroup. “Investors are discovering that Italian and Spanish government bonds are not as safe as they thought.”
花旗集团(Citigroup)高级策略师马特•金(Matt King)表示:“人们担忧的是,这很可能不是一次孤立的降级。投资者正发现,意大利和西班牙国债并不如想象中的那般安全。”
S and P’s downgrade was worrying for Spanish leaders and foreign investors because it mentioned the need to provide extra financial support for weaker banks, a problem already highlighted earlier this week by the International Monetary Fund.
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