伊拉克侵占科威特,不仅直接影响整个海湾地区的石油生产和出口,而且也使世界金融市场陷入混乱。眼下油价及金价大幅度上扬,美元对西方主要货币的汇价剧烈波动,西方股市全面下挫,债券也告滑落。随着国际社会对伊拉克的经济制裁和以美国为首的西方国家在海湾大规模集结兵力,世界金融市 Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait not only directly affected the oil production and exports in the entire Gulf region but also caused the world’s financial markets to plunge into chaos. Right now the sharp rise in oil and gold prices, the dollar against the major currencies of the West volatility, the overall decline in the West stock market, bonds also fell. With the international community’s economic sanctions on Iraq and the Western-led western nations led by the United States to build up large-scale forces in the Gulf, the world financial market