【精英翻譯關注新聞】Standoff in Ukraine affecting foreign, domestic markets東歐亂經濟－【精英翻譯】的部落格

Standoff in Ukraine affecting foreign, domestic markets (2014/03/03)

The disturbances in Ukraine are having an impact on world markets. Commodities are up and stocks were down today, while Taiwanese businesspeople who set up factories in the Eastern European nation anxiously await new developments.

Demonstrators pick up clubs, hammers and anything else they can get their hands on. In protest, they swing these makeshift weapons at police. These scenes are from protests last month against the now ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.

Among the losers are local Taiwanese businesspeople hurt by the instability.

Wu Fu-cheng
Taiwan Inst. of Economic Research
Micro-Star has been operating there for many years. Other affected companies we know of include electronics firms in the Hsinchu Technology Park, such as those in the automobile parts and machinery industries.

Ukraine is the world’s fifth largest exporter of wheat and third largest exporter of corn. Futures prices on these two commodities are their highest in several months.

Around 80 percent of the pipelines Russia uses to export natural gas to Europe pass through Ukraine. Prices of both natural gas and oil have jumped.

Tseng Shih-yu
Investment Trust Fund Manager
If fighting doesn’t break out but the tension continues, oil prices could rise another 2 or 3 percent. This is a conservative estimate.

In these rocky times, investors are turning to gold, though analysts believe events in Ukraine are only a part of the reason.

東歐亂經濟

身為全球重要穀物出口國的烏克蘭，和俄羅斯緊張情勢升溫，使得小麥期貨單日價格大漲2%，玉米更創下五個月新高，就連國際原油和黃金價格，也持續飆漲。在烏克蘭設廠的台商，現在也都很緊張。

不管是棍棒還是鐵鎚，拿起來就往警察猛揮，上個月烏克蘭的民眾上街示威，不滿前總統，亞努科維奇親俄的立場。

烏克蘭政治動盪不安，首當其衝的是台商在當地的投資。

[[台經院國際事務處副處長吳福成]]
微星科技就在那邊經營很多年，我們知道很多在台灣竹科那些電子行業，包括汽車零組件，還有加工機械等等，恐怕都沒有辦法更大作為。

不只是台商受影響，烏克蘭是全球第五大小麥，第三大玉米出口國，穀物出口受影響，期貨價格應聲大漲，小麥創下去年八月以來最大漲幅，玉米也攀上五個月以來新高。

至於俄羅斯出口到歐洲，有八成天然氣管線要經過烏克蘭，天然氣、石油價格，也出現價格飆漲。

[[投信公司基金經理人曾士育]]
如果沒有開打，但是前面有醞釀， (石油價格)可能再往上漲個2%、3%，是比較保守的估計。

另外，黃金價格也有上漲的趨勢，但有基金經理人認為金價今年本來就看好，烏克蘭局勢只是部分因素。