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油价金价再创新高
在美元再度走软之际，原油及黄金价格昨日再创新高，因投资者试图躲避第二轮信贷动荡的冲击。
Crude?oil?and?gold?prices?surged?to?fresh?highs?yesterday?amid?renewed?dollar?weakness?as?investors?sought?refuge?from?a?second?wave?of?credit?turmoil.
西德克萨斯中质原油(West?Texas?Intermediate)大幅上涨逾3美元，创下每桶97.07美元的名义高点，交易员警告称，如果本周美国原油库存数据较上周又有下降，油价最早可能于今日试探每桶100美元的水平。
West?Texas?Intermediate?jumped?more?than?$3?to?a?nominal?record?of?$97.07?a?barrel?and?traders?warned?it?might?test?the?$100-a-barrel?level?as?soon?as?today?if?US?crude?oil?inventories?show?another?weekly?decline.
美国能源情报署(Energy?Information?Administration)一份看涨的报告推动了油价上涨，报告称“紧张的基本面因素”将继续推高油价。能源情报署是美国能源部(Department?of?Energy)的统计机构。
The?price?jump?was?helped?by?a?bullish?report?from?the?Energy?Information?Administration,?the?statistical?arm?of?the?US?Energy?Department,?warning?that?“tight?fundamentals”?would?continue?to?push?up?oil?prices.
能源情报署预测原油价格“在未来数月内将超过每桶80美元”，在2008年将维持在每桶75美元以上，因为“全球原油市场可能仍将处于紧张状态。”该机构表示，石油输出国组织(OPEC，简称欧佩克)需要在目前每日增产50万桶的基础上，再增产70万桶，从而使市场维持平衡状态，直到明年第一季度。
The?EIA?forecast?that?crude?oil?prices?would?“exceed?$80?per?barrel?over?the?next?several?months”?and?trade?above?$75?a?barrel?in?2008?as?“global?oil?markets?will?likely?remain?stretched.”?It?said?the?Organisation?of?the?Petroleum?Exporting?Countries?would?need?to?add?another?700,000?barrels?a?day?on?top?of?its?current?production?increase?of?500,000?b/d?to?balance?the?market?through?the?first?quarter?of?2008.
针对原油价格在1年内超过每桶100美元的.看涨期权价格飙升至每桶4.15美元，较10月底上涨近70%。
The?cost?of?using?options?contracts?to?insure?against?crude?oil?trading?at?$100?in?a?year’s?time?surged?to?$4.15?per?barrel,?up?almost?70?per?cent?since?the?end?of?October.
在原油价格上涨和美元不断走软的共同作用下，黄金价格升至824.3美元/盎司的28年高点，仅略低于1980年1月份850美元/盎司的历史高点。
The?combination?of?strong?crude?oil?prices?and?a?weakening?dollar?boosted?gold?prices?to?a?fresh?28-year?high?of?$824.3?an?ounce,?just?below?its?all-time?high?of?$850?reached?in?January?1980.
贵金属交易员们表示，投资者在增持黄金——没有人卖出。Dresdner?Kleinwort驻伦敦的贵金属业务主管大卫·赫尔姆斯(David?Holmes)表示，金价升至每盎司850美元的“可能性很大。”
Precious?metals?traders?said?investors?were?adding?to?their?gold?positions?–?no?one?was?selling.?David?Holmes,?head?of?precious?metals?at?Dresdner?Kleinwort?in?London,?said?a?rise?to?$850?was?“very?much?on?the?cards”.
瑞银集团(UBS)驻伦敦的贵金属策略主管约翰?里德(John?Reade)将其1个月期金价预测定为“不可避免的”每盎司850美元。
John?Reade,?head?of?metals?strategy?at?UBS?in?London,?upgraded?its?one-month?gold?forecast?to?an?“inevitable”?$850?an?ounce.
