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在全球化的进程中,没有什么比金融市场体现地更为明显。贸易或许正处于繁荣之中,移民或许正在增长,但这些趋势同国际金融市场交易的爆炸性增长相比,则显得苍白无力。据估计,全球外汇交易市场的交易额已从1986年的1880亿美元增长到1995年的1.2万亿美元——这种增长几乎比贸易的增长快三倍。从80年代中期到90年代中期,发达工业国家的对外直接投资(FDI)已增长了近5倍,而同期,七大工业国的债券和股票的跨国界交易几乎增长了10倍。
In the process of globalization, nothing is more obvious than the financial markets. Trade may be in the midst of prosperity, and immigrants may be growing, but these trends appear pale and weak compared to the explosive growth of transactions in international financial markets. It is estimated that the volume of transactions in global foreign exchange markets has risen from 180 billion U.S. dollars in 1986 to 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 1995 - almost three times faster than the growth in trade. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced industrial countries had increased nearly fivefold, while cross-border transactions in bonds and stocks of the seven industrial nations nearly tripled over the same period.