商业报道:亚洲市场能经受住金融冲击

Asian markets showing strength

For some investors¹, Asian market reaction to Wall Street's tumble is worth watching. CNN's Hugh Riminton reports.

Asian markets opened with a predictable plunge² and blunt predictions on the streets.

I think we are gonna have big financial problems for at least two years.

Banks took the early pressure, Australia’s Prime Minister going public to address investors.

Australia’s major banks which represent 85% of the Australian banking³ system, uh, that these are in good order, that they are weathering the financial crisis well. If I will regulate it, and I will capitalize it, that remains⁴ its situation.

With a late hit to commodity stocks, Australia finished down more than 4%, as did Japan.

We investors in Japan think the financial trouble in the US links so strongly to us, we won’t get in a positive mindset until an emergency bailout planned is forth⁵ through.

But so found some resilience through bank on short selling, and Hong Kong bounced back.

In Hong Kong, one seasoned trader says the market is still rating it a 50-50 chance that Congress will still salvage⁶ a bailout bill, implication of that is that if they don’t, these markets still have further to fall.

But after the Hang Seng index tumbled 5% in the first 5 minutes, Hong Kong’s oldest working trader was seeing up some.

Do you think this is a buying opportunity?

Very good, the opportunity to buy …

The market agreed, recouping all of those lost early losses to close the day ahead, the only market in Asia to do so. So has Asia now shown a fundamental strength? Some believe it has.

Asian banking system in the last 12 months have not needed to be supported, nationalized, injected, or privatized or otherwise interfered⁷ with either by the central banks or the Asian governments. The Asian banking systems are absolutely sound, alive and kicking.

Maybe, but would you put your house …

Hugh Riminton, CNN, Hong Kong.

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

2 plunge   

v.跳入，(使)投入，(使)陷入；猛冲

参考例句：

• Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
• That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。

3 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

6 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

7 interfered   

v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 )；调停；妨碍；干涉

参考例句：

• Complete absorption in sports interfered with his studies. 专注于运动妨碍了他的学业。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I am not going to be interfered with. 我不想别人干扰我的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》