Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year. With the conspicuous exception of China and the less conspicuous exception of Australia, all have had low standard deviations of daily returns for the 100-business-day period ending August 3 when compared with the norm for the country.
同样负偏态也并非与今年的大部分时间世界股市相对比较平静的事实不相符。除中国一枝独秀以及澳大利亚稍逊一些的表现外，与各国的标准相比，截止8月3日前的100个交易日各国市场的每日回报标准差其实都很低。