美国科技股再遭抛售
US tech shares were under pressure again on Wednesday, rattling the wider market given the sector’s contribution to a record-breaking bull run over the past year.
美国科技股周三再次承压，令整个市场感到不安，因为该板块对过去一年里刷新纪录的牛市做出了很大贡献。After their worst one-day drop on Tuesday, several of the so-called Faang (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) stocks fell further as a mix of regulatory scrutiny and a more defensive mindset from investors left them out of favour.
在周二创下最大单日跌幅之后，所谓“Faang”（Facebook、苹果(Apple)，亚马逊(Amazon)、Netflix和谷歌(Google)）中的一些股票进一步下挫，原因在于监管审查和投资者心态偏向守势使它们不再受宠。Shares in Apple, still the largest company on the stock market, by late afternoon in New York had dropped about 0.5 per cent to $167.49, Amazon was 4 per cent lower at $1,434.32 and video-streaming service Netflix slipped about 3.5 per cent to $290.28. There was, however, some respite for Facebook as its shares climbed 0.8 per cent to $153.41, after tumbling the previous day, while those of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, also edged higher.
纽约尾盘时分，仍为市值最高公司的苹果股价下跌约0.5%，至167.49美元；亚马逊下跌4%，至1434.32美元；视频流媒体服务公司Netflix下跌约3.5%，至290.28美元。不过，Facebook得到一些喘息机会，其股价在前一天暴跌之后回升了0.8%，至153.41美元，而谷歌母公司Alphabet的股价也微幅上涨。
“The question for equity markets is how much contagion there will be from the tech stock sell-off,” said Paul Hatfield, at Alcentra, part of BNY Mellon Investment Management.
“股市面临的问题是，科技股的抛售将在多大程度上蔓延至其他板块，”纽银梅隆资产管理(BNY Mellon Asset Management)旗下Alcentra的保罗?哈特菲尔德(Paul Hatfield)说。
The weakness in the Faangs, a group of large tech companies that have attracted investors over the past year with an intoxicating mix of disruptive technology and near-dominant positions in their respective markets, comes as the supportive global economic backdrop that prevailed last year faces new threats.
在“Faang”（过去一年里，这几家大型科技公司因其令人神往的组合——颠覆性技术和在各自市场中近乎垄断的地位——吸引了投资者）股价走弱之际，去年占上风的令人鼓舞的全球经济大环境面临新的威胁。The Amazon decline — the shares fell as much as 7.4 per cent earlier in the session — came after a report on the Axios website said Donald Trump was looking for ways to “go after” the company, quoting an unnamed friend of the president. Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, a paper that he frequently labels as “fake news”.
亚马逊股价下跌——其早盘跌幅一度高达7.4%——之前，Axios网站上一篇援引唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的一位未具名朋友的话报道称，美国总统正在想方设法“打压”该公司。亚马逊创始人、首席执行官杰夫?贝索斯(Jeff Bezos)是《华盛顿邮报》(Washington Post)的所有者，而特朗普经常给这份报纸贴上“假新闻”的标签。Overall, the Nasdaq, home to many of the largest tech companies, was down about 0.4 per cent by late afternoon in New York on Wednesday and was only just in positive territory for the year at 6981. The S&P 500 was roughly flat at 2613, and on track for its first quarterly loss since 2015.
截至纽约周三尾盘时分，纳斯达克(Nasdaq)指数——许多大型科技公司是其成分股——下跌了0.4%，至6981点，勉强高于年初水平。标准普尔500(S&P 500)指数大致持平，为2613点，看来将录得2015年以来首次季度下跌。
