2022年经济学人 英政府放弃取消最高所得税税率计划 国债收益率升至4%

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The world this week--Business

本周国际要闻--商业

Elon Musk¹ changed course and offered to go ahead with his $44bn deal to buy Twitter, but only if a forthcoming trial that could force him to complete the takeover is stopped.

埃隆·马斯克改变了路线，提出继续推进以440亿美元收购Twitter的交易，但前提是即将到来的可能迫使他完成收购的审判被阻止。

A recent preliminary hearing in the case did not go well for his legal team.

对他的律师团队来说，此案最近的初步听证会进展并不顺利。

The mercurial² Mr Musk offered to take Twitter private in April, said the offer was on hold in May, and abandoned the deal in July, prompting the legal action.

马斯克反复无常，今年4月提出要将Twitter私有化，5月表示要搁置该提议，7月放弃了这笔交易，引发了法律诉讼。

He has suggested that he will turn the platform into “X”, an everything app, similar perhaps to the superapps that combine messaging, shopping and services in Asia.

他曾暗示，他将要把这个平台变成“X”，一个无所不包的应用程序，类似于亚洲那些集消息、购物和服务于一体的超级应用程序。

Stockmarkets rallied briefly³ over the first two days of trading of the fourth quarter, after a brutal⁴ sell-off at the end of the third quarter.

在经历了第三季度末的残酷抛售之后，股票市场在第四季度的头两个交易日短暂反弹。

Despite some gains in August, share indices recorded an overall loss from July 1st to September 30th.

尽管8月份股指有所上涨，但从7月1日到9月30日，股指整体下跌。

The S&P 500 was down by 5% over the quarter—September was its worst month since March 2020, the start of the pandemic.

标准普尔500指数在本季度下跌了5%--9月份是自2020年3月疫情开始以来表现最差的一个月。

The NASDAQ Composite shed 4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 7%.

纳斯达克综合指数下跌4%，道琼斯工业股票平均价格指数下跌7%。

Bond markets were calmer.

债券市场较为平静。

The yield on ten-year British gilts⁵ eased back to around 4% after the government ditched its plan to scrap⁶ the top rate of income tax (two months ago the yield was around 2%).

在英国政府放弃取消所得税最高税率的计划后，10年期英国国债的收益率回落到4%左右(两个月前收益率在2%左右)。

The yield on the ten-year US Treasury⁷ fell back to 3.6% having risen above 4%.

10年期美国国债收益率回落至3.6%，此前曾升至4%以上。

In Britain banks started re-offering some mortgage products they had withdrawn⁸ amid the market uncertainty⁹.

在英国，各家银行开始重新提供一些因市场不确定性而退出的抵押贷款产品。

The interest rate on an average two-year fixed-rate mortgage rose above 6% for the first time since 2008.

两年期固定利率抵押贷款的平均利率自2008年以来首次超过6%。

OPEC+ said it would cut oil production by 2m barrels a day, around 2% of global supply.

石油输出国组织及其盟友(OPEC+)表示将削减石油日产量200万桶，约占全球供应量的2%。

The headline figure is the biggest reduction to output since 2020, but some OPEC members are already struggling with production targets so the overall effect will be lower.

这一整体数字是自2020年以来减产幅度最大的一次，但一些石油输出国组织（OPEC）成员国已经在努力实现产量目标，因此整体影响将较低。

Still, it was a blow for the Biden administration and European governments, which had pressed the cartel to keep cuts to a minimum so that prices don’t rise.

不过，这对拜登政府和欧洲各国政府来说是一个打击，这些政府曾向该垄断联盟施压，要求其将减产控制在最低限度，以防止油价上涨。

The White House press secretary said that OPEC was now clearly “aligning with Russia”.

白宫新闻秘书表示，石油输出国组织现在显然“与俄罗斯站在了一起”。

Annual inflation in the Netherlands (measured by the CPI) surged to 14.5% in September.

荷兰的年度通货膨胀率(以消费者物价指数衡量)在9月份飙升至14.5%。

Energy prices were up by 200%, year on year.

能源价格同比上涨200%。

Turkey’s inflation rate rose above 83%; transport and food prices increased at an even faster clip.

土耳其的通货膨胀率超过83%; 该国交通和食品价格的上涨速度更快。