每日雅思|美国原油期货价格跌至负值

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美国原油期货价格史无前例地跌至负值。这意味着，由于担心5月份原油存储能力可能耗尽，石油生产商正在付钱给买家以抛出手中的存货。

The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history. That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity① off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May.

由于全球各地都采取了封锁措施，人们居家隔离，石油需求已近枯竭。因此，石油公司不得不租用油轮来贮存过剩原油，这迫使美国原油期货价格跌至负值。

Demand for oil has all but dried up as lockdowns across the world have kept people inside. As a result, oil firms have resorted to renting tankers② to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory.

这是自1983年纽约商品交易所开始石油期货交易以来的最低水平。金融及分析研究中心的能源资产分析师斯图尔特·格利克曼说：“需求冲击如此之大，真是远超人们预期。”

That's the lowest level since NYMEX opened oil futures trading in 1983. "This is off-the-charts③ wacky," said Stewart Glickman, an energy equity analyst at CFRA Research④, "The demand shock was so massive that it's overwhelmed anything that people could have expected." (Financial Times)

【注释】① commodity: [kəˈmɑːdəti] n. (economics) a product or a raw material that can be bought and sold 〈经〉商品② tanker: [ˈtæŋkər] n. a ship or lorry/truck that carries oil, gas or petrol/gas in large quantities 运送大量液体或气体的轮船（或卡车）；油轮；罐车；油槽车③ off-the-charts: (informal, especially North American English) extremely high in level 超高的④ CFRA Research = Center for Financial Research and Analysis Research 世界上最大的独立投资研究公司之一

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