文章原文摘自彭博推送,主要由百度翻译完成,Jingyi 为了加快速度就本着学习的态度做微调。
01 翻译
阿根廷终于按下了恐慌按钮。经过多年努力避免货币贬值,这将增加飙升的通货膨胀并降低其在选民中的受欢迎程度,政府周一承认在这场斗争中让步了。此举是总统 Alberto Fernandez 承认,在周日的关键初选中遭受惨败(stinging defeat)后,他的政府已经没有选择和资金来捍卫不可持续的汇率。18%的贬值使官方比索(peso)汇率达到每美元350(周五为287),并伴随着央行关键利率的再次大幅上调。它被提高了21个百分点,达到118%。—— Natasha Solo-Lyons
俄罗斯央行周二召开特别会议,此前卢布(ruble)兑美元自2022年3月以来首次跌破100美元,此前不久,普京对乌克兰发动战争。
美国监管机构将很快提议要求资产只有1000亿美元的银行发行足够的长期债务,以弥补资本损失。联邦存款保险公司(Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)、货币监理署(Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)和美联储(Federal Reserve)正在制定该计划,部分是为了彰显华盛顿(美国政府)对中型银行失败的回应(注意:也可以翻译成应对政策)。
高盛(Goldman Sachs)经济学家预计,美联储将在明年6月底开始降息,届时将逐步按季度降息。他们在一份报告中写道:“这一下调是希望使得基金回报率正常化,因为一旦通胀率接近预期时候,会激发保护措施,即限制货币流通(restrictive level)”。
万事达卡同意收购非洲最大的无线运营商(wireless carrier)MTN集团的金融科技板块的少数股权(minority stake),使该电信公司的股票在三个月内上涨最多(sending the telecom company's stock up the most in the three months.)。万事达卡的股份规模在交易完成之前不会披露,但MTN表示,该交易对整个金融科技部门的估值为52亿美元。
科技股创下两周来最好的一天,帮助美国股市在小额交易(light trading)中持续上扬片刻(edge higher)。以科技股为主的纳斯达克100指数上涨1.2%,因钟爱人工智能的英伟达和其他科技巨头推动了周一的上涨。
多年来,埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)总是直言不讳地谈论人口骤减的危险。事实证明,这位暴躁的亿万富翁一直在把钱放在嘴边。马斯克基金会在 2021 年向德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校捐赠了 1000 万美元,这是有史以来捐助高校的最大一笔捐款。这笔捐款与人口福利倡议(the Population Wellbeing Initiative)有关,这是一个致力于人口研究的新的跨学科研究小组。
新加坡最大的银行首席执行官 Piyush Gupta 表示,新加坡需要弄清楚如何更好地部署其庞大的储备,并通过在该地区进行更多投资来巩固其富裕地位(better deploy its sizable reserves and leverage its wealthy status by investing more in the region)。“我们仍然没有意识到(catch up around the fact that)我们是一个富裕国家的事实,”星展集团控股负责人周一表示。“我们有资本资源,我们如何将其用于创造竞争优势?”
你在哪决定了你有多富裕
How Rich You Are Depends on Where You Are
他们是纽约的律师,凤凰城的医生和孟菲斯的牙医。他们年轻,年老,民主党或者共和党。他们都有两个共同点:他们很富有,但他们不觉得自己富有。在一项针对1000多名年收入至少 17.5 万美元的美国人的全国调查中,大约是美国报税者的前10%,整整四分之一的人表示他们要么“非常贫穷”,“贫穷”,要么“过得去,但情况很紧张”(getting by but things are tight)。一半的人形容自己只是“舒服”。许多人考虑搬到该国的另一个地方,以降低税收和降低生活成本。但是,搬家实际上会产生多大的影响呢?试试我们的比较工具,我们已经免费提供给所有读者,看看你在其他地方会(或不会)感觉丰富多少。ShoelessCai 评注,这似乎是一则广告,但是却很符合我对我身边很多人的判断。
02 原文
Argentina finally hit the panic button. After years of trying to avoid a currency devaluation that would add to soaring inflation and reduce its popularity with voters, the government conceded defeat in that fight on Monday. The move was an admission by President Alberto Fernandez that his administration had run out of options—and money—to defend an unsustainable exchange rate after suffering a stinging defeat in a crucial primary election on Sunday. The 18% devaluation takes the official peso rate to 350 per US dollar (compared to 287 on Friday) and comes with another huge hike in the central bank’s key interest rate. It was raised 21 percentage points to 118%. —Natasha Solo-Lyons
Russia’s central bank called an extraordinary meeting Tuesday after the ruble crashed through the level of 100 to the dollar for the first time since March of 2022, shortly after Vladimir Putin launched his war on Ukraine.
US regulators will soon propose requiring banks with as little as $100 billion in assets to issue enough long-term debt to cover capital losses if they ever fail. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve are working on the plan as part of Washington’s response to this year’s failures of midsize lenders.
Goldman Sachs economists anticipate the Fed will start lowering interest rates by the end of next June, with a gradual, quarterly pace of reductions from that point. “The cuts in our forecast are driven by this desire to normalize the funds rate from a restrictive level once inflation is closer to target,” they wrote in a note.
Mastercard agreed to take a minority stake in the financial-technology business of MTN Group, Africa’s biggest wireless carrier, sending the telecom company’s stock up the most in three months. The size of Mastercard’s stake won’t be disclosed until the transaction closes, but MTN said that the deal values the entire fintech unit at $5.2 billion.
Tech stocks had their best day in two weeks, helping US equities edge higher in light trading. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rose 1.2% as AI-favorite Nvidia and other technology giants drove Monday’s advance.
For years, Elon Musk has been outspoken about the dangers of population collapse. As it turns out, the voluble billionaire has been putting his money where his mouth is. The Musk Foundation made one of its biggest ever donations and its largest to higher education—$10 million to the University of Texas at Austin—in 2021. The donation is linked to the Population Wellbeing Initiative, a new interdisciplinary research group devoted to the study of population.
Singapore needs to figure out how to better deploy its sizable reserves and leverage its wealthy status by investing more in the region, according to Piyush Gupta, chief executive of the city-state’s largest bank. “We’ve still not caught up around the fact that we are a rich country,” the head of DBS Group Holdings said Monday. “We have capital resources, how do we put it to work to create competitive advantage?”
How Rich You Are Depends on Where You Are
They’re lawyers in New York, doctors in Phoenix and dentists in Memphis. They’re young, old, Democratic and Republican. And they all have two things in common: they’re rich but they don’t feel they’re rich. In a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 Americans making at least $175,000 a year—roughly the top 10% of US tax filers—a full quarter said they were either “very poor,” “poor” or “getting by but things are tight.” Half described themselves as just “comfortable.” Many have considered moving to a different part of the country for lower taxes and a cheaper cost of living. But how much of a difference would moving actually make? Try our comparison tool, which we’ve made free to all readers, and find out how much richer you would (or wouldn’t) feel somewhere else.