埃及動盪和葡萄牙政局不穩導致世界股市下挫

Asian and European markets tumbled Wednesday on fears of continued Egyptian political unrest and uncertainty over the fate of the Portuguese ruling coalition.

Global oil prices hit a 14-month high, with the light sweet crude traded in New York topping $102 a barrel. Investors worried that the crisis in Egypt could affect Middle East oil shipments through the Suez Canal, a key transit point.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index plunged 2.5 percent, while markets in London, Frankfurt and Paris were all down more than 1 percent in afternoon trading. U.S. shares were off slightly as trading opened in New York.

European traders were especially worried about the political uncertainty in debt-ridden Portugal, after two key government ministers resigned this week in protest of Lisbon's austerity measures endorsed by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Interest rates on government bonds soared on fears his government might collapse, while shares on Lisbon's stock exchange plummeted more than 6 percent.

A survey showed that growth in China's services sector, an industry of growing importance in the country, fell in June to its slowest pace in nine months.埃及政局持續動盪引起的恐慌以及葡萄牙執政聯盟命運未卜帶來的不確定性，星期三亞洲和歐洲股市下跌。

全球原油價格創14月新高，紐約交易的輕質低硫原油價格超過每桶102美元。投資者擔心埃及的危機會影響關鍵通道蘇伊士運河的石油運輸。

香港恆生指數下跌了2.5%，倫敦、法蘭克福和巴黎股市的下午交易都下滑了1%以上。紐約股市開盤時略有滑落。

歐洲交易商對債臺高築的葡萄牙政治確實的不確定性尤其感到擔心。本星期，葡萄牙兩名政府部長辭職，以抗議科埃略總理支持的緊縮政策。由於人們擔心他的政府可能垮臺，政府債券的利率猛漲，而里斯本股票交易所的股價則大跌，跌幅超過6%。

一份民調顯示，中國的服務業6月份的增長率跌至九個月來的最低點。服務業在中國經濟中佔的比重越來越大。