七國集團幫日本抑制日元升值
Officials from seven of the world's largest economies are helping bolster Japan's troubled economy by taking joint action to cut the value of the yen.
Exports are vital to Japan's economy, and the recent sharp increase in the value of the yen means that Japanese-made products would be more expensive on world markets, which would hurt sales.
So finance ministers from the G-7 nations held an emergency conference by phone early Friday to agree to sell large quantities of the Japanese currency.
Selling yen for dollars, pounds, euros or whatever, means there are more yen on the market, and a greater supply of yen means the price of the yen falls.
The yen immediately dropped sharply in value after news of the joint market intervention. The news encouraged investors, and Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index rose a sharp 2.7 percent. The rebound helped Japanese companies recover some of the value they have lost as stocks went into free fall after the recent series of disasters.
世界七大經濟體的官員們正採取聯合行動，通過降低日圓匯率來幫助陷入困境的日本經濟。
出口對日本經濟至關重要。日圓升值意味着日本生產的產品在國際市場上更加昂貴，從而傷害到日本產品的銷售。
爲此，七國集團各成員國的財政部長星期五清晨舉行了緊急電話會議，同意大量出售日圓。
出售日圓以換取美元、英鎊、歐元或其它任何貨幣，這意味着，市場上會有更多的日圓，而日圓供應增加意味着日圓匯率的下降。
這次聯合干預市場的消息發佈後，日圓立即大幅下跌。這一消息鼓勵了投資者，並使日本經濟的晴雨表日經指數大漲2.7%。這一反彈幫助日本企業挽回了一些它們在股市上失去的市值。日本最近一系列的災難導致股票價格自由落體式地下跌。
