美國科技股再遭拋售
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.
美國科技股週三再次承壓，令整個市場感到不安，因爲該板塊對過去一年裏刷新紀錄的牛市做出了很大貢獻。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.
在週二創下最大單日跌幅之後，所謂“Faang”（Facebook、蘋果(Apple)，亞馬遜(Amazon)、Netflix和谷歌(Google)）中的一些股票進一步下挫，原因在於監管審查和投資者心態偏向守勢使它們不再受寵。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.
紐約尾盤時分，仍爲市值最高公司的蘋果股價下跌約0.5%，至167.49美元；亞馬遜下跌4%，至1434.32美元；視頻流媒體服務公司Netflix下跌約3.5%，至290.28美元。不過，Facebook得到一些喘息機會，其股價在前一天暴跌之後回升了0.8%，至153.41美元，而谷歌母公司Alphabet的股價也微幅上漲。
“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.
“股市面臨的問題是，科技股的拋售將在多大程度上蔓延至其他板塊，”紐銀梅隆資產管理(BNY Mellon Asset Management)旗下Alcentra的保羅?哈特菲爾德(Paul Hatfield)說。
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”（過去一年裏，這幾家大型科技公司因其令人神往的組合——顛覆性技術和在各自市場中近乎壟斷的地位——吸引了投資者）股價走弱之際，去年佔上風的令人鼓舞的全球經濟大環境面臨新的威脅。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”.
亞馬遜股價下跌——其早盤跌幅一度高達7.4%——之前，Axios網站上一篇援引唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的一位未具名朋友的話報道稱，美國總統正在想方設法“打壓”該公司。亞馬遜創始人、首席執行官傑夫?貝索斯(Jeff Bezos)是《華盛頓郵報》(Washington Post)的所有者，而特朗普經常給這份報紙貼上“假新聞”的標籤。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.
截至紐約週三尾盤時分，納斯達克(Nasdaq)指數——許多大型科技公司是其成分股——下跌了0.4%，至6981點，勉強高於年初水平。標準普爾500(S&P 500)指數大致持平，爲2613點，看來將錄得2015年以來首次季度下跌。
