First the UK had the finances of an emerging market. Then it seemed to have the politics too. For a brief moment on Thursday, rumours swirled through currency markets that Gordon Brown, the prime minister, had resigned or been ousted in a cabinet rebellion. Sterling swooned 1.3 per cent. Then Downing Street said talk of Mr Brown resigning was “absolute rubbish”. That didn't help the pound much. By the end of the day, sterling had gone, possibly assisted by a large piece of mergers and acquisitions finance, but Mr Brown hadn't.
英國先是在財政狀況上表現得像一個新興市場，然後在政治上似乎亦是如此。週四一個短暫的時刻，外匯市場上盛傳英國首相高登•布朗(Gordon Brown)已經辭職，或因內閣造反而遭到罷黜。英鎊急跌1.3%。隨後唐寧街出面澄清，稱布朗辭職「純屬無稽之談」。這並未給英鎊帶來多少幫助。到一天結束的時候，英鎊大勢已去（可能還因受到一項大規模併購融資的影響），而布朗還在位。
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