最新民調顯示英國退歐民意大幅領先

Volatility in currency markets intensified and the pound came under renewed selling pressure late on Friday after a survey showed the British campaign to Leave the EU had opened a 10-point lead over the Remain camp.

週五晚間外匯市場波動加劇，英鎊承受新的拋售壓力，此前有調查顯示，英國退歐陣營比留歐陣營領先10個百分點。

A sell-off in the pound accelerated minutes after an ORB survey commissioned by The Independent newspaper showed 55 per cent of likely voters would cast their ballot to exit the EU. The Remain camp was expected to capture 45 per cent of the vote, according to the online poll of 2,052 respondents.

英國《獨立報》(The Independent)委託ORB對2052名受訪者進行了在線調查，結果顯示，在可能投票的選民當中，有55%將支持退出歐盟，支持留歐的比例是45%。該調查結果出來數分鐘之後，英鎊拋售壓力加劇。

Sterling slid 1.4 per cent against the US dollar to $1.426 and 0.8 per cent against the euro, extending earlier losses hours before foreign exchange markets closed for the week.

英鎊兌美元匯率下跌1.4%，至1英鎊兌1.426美元，兌歐元下跌0.8%，在匯市結束一週的交易數小時前擴大了早先的跌幅。

The slide in the pound marked its biggest one-day loss since February 22 to near a two-month low as the UK readies for the landmark vote in less than two weeks.

英鎊此次下跌標誌着自今年2月22日以來最大的單日跌幅，跌至近兩個月來的最低點。英國將在不到兩週後迎來這場里程牌式的公投。

“UK political risk has become the biggest deal in global financial markets,” strategists with Citi said. “Financial markets do not like uncertainty and this referendum provides high-level event risk with a binary outcome and little historical precedence — no wonder so many investors across all asset classes are concerned.”

花旗(Citi)的外匯策略師們表示：“英國政治風險成爲全球金融市場上最爲重大的事件。金融市場不喜歡不確定性，這場公投帶來了高度的事件風險，結果是極化的，歷史上幾乎沒有先例——難怪各個資產類別的這麼多投資者都感到擔憂。”