哈薩克斯坦放開匯率致堅戈暴跌
Kazakhstan's currency just lost more than 20 per cent of its value at the start of trading, about an hour after the surprise announcement that the government would allow the currency to float freely.
哈薩克斯坦政府突然宣佈，允許其貨幣自由浮動。消息公佈大約一小時後，哈薩克堅戈甫一開盤就暴跌逾20%。
One dollar is now worth 257.7 tenge, taking its year-to-date plunge to nearly 30 per cent.
目前，堅戈匯率爲1美元兌257.7堅戈，該貨幣今年迄今的跌幅已接近30%。
The Kazakh central bank scrapped the trading band for the tenge early on Thursday, just one day after the Kazakh central bank widened the currency's trade band and allowed it to weaken 4.7 per cent to 196.88 per dollar, the lowest since at least 1994.
週四早上，哈薩克斯坦央行取消了對堅戈匯率交易區間的規定。僅僅一天前，該行剛剛擴大了堅戈匯率的交易區間，允許這種貨幣兌美元貶值4.7%，跌至1美元兌196.88堅戈，這是至少1994年以來的最低匯率。
As the FT noted overnight, the oil-dependent central Asian country trades heavily with Russia and China and is being buffeted by the fall in the rouble and crude prices.
正如英國《金融時報》夜間報道所指出的，這個依賴石油的中亞國家與中俄兩國都有大量貿易往來。盧布和油價的暴跌，令該國經濟大受打擊。
The twin moves to reform how the currency trades comes within nine days of China devaluing the renminbi and changing the way it will be fixed each morning, ostensibly to give more voice to markets.
就在該國此次接連推出堅戈交易改革舉措前9天，中國曾令人民幣大幅貶值，並改變了每天早晨制定人民幣匯率中間價的方式，擺出了給予市場更多發言權的姿態。
Kazakhstan's move to widen the trading band followed in the footsteps of Vietnam, which has expanded the trading band for the dong twice since August 11. Kazakhstan's move to freely-float the tenge goes a major way forward and could fuel more worries of an unintended currency war sparked by China.
8月11日以來，越南曾兩度擴大越南盾交易區間。而哈薩克斯坦擴大堅戈交易區間的舉措，就發生在越南之後。該國令堅戈匯率自由浮動的舉措則向前邁進了一大步，可能會令人們愈發擔心中國無意中引發了一場匯率戰爭。
