PARIS – Financial markets have rallied since July on the hope that the global economic and geopolitical outlook will not worsen, or, if it does, that central banks stand ready to backstop economies and markets with additional rounds of liquidity provision and quantitative easing. So, not only has good – or better-than-expected – economic news boosted the markets, but even bad news has been good news, because it increases the probability that central-banking firefighters like US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will douse the markets with buckets of cash.
巴黎—7月份以来，金融市场因为寄希望于全球经济和地缘政治前景不会再恶化——即使真的恶化了，各大央行也早已做好了准备通过更多轮的流动性供应和量化宽松力挺经济和市场——而出现了反弹。因此，不但关于经济的好（或好于预期的）消息提振着市场，就连坏消息也被视为好消息，因为这增加了美联储主席伯南克和欧洲央行行长德拉吉等央行救火队员用现金扑灭市场之火的可能性。