欧洲央行行长的万亿欧元承诺

    具有讽刺意味的是，就在德拉吉发言的同时，美国股市创下了新高。由于7月份就业数据表现强劲，道琼斯工业平均指数（Dow Jones Industrial Average）首次突破17000点大关。

    和耶伦一样，德拉吉说新的定向“宏观审慎”工具应首先用于防止可能出现的市场泡沫。他重申，欧央行利率将在“较长时间内”保持现有水平。

    周四早些时候，瑞典央行（Riksbank）让自己的货币政策进一步向欧洲央行靠拢，将主要回购利率下调0.5个百分点，降低到了0.25%，下调幅度超过外界预期。

    瑞典央行同时表示，由于通胀一直低于预期，它目前认为“2015年年底前”都不需要提高回购利率。在截至5月份的12个月中，瑞典的通胀率为0.1%，甚至低于欧元区的0.5%。

    瑞典央行的这项决定让瑞典克朗兑欧元汇率下降到了三年半以来的最低水平。（财富中文网）

    译者：Charlie

    Ironically, as Draghi was speaking, U.S. stocks hit a new record high, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average breached 17,000 for the first time in response to a strong July employment report.

    Like Yellen, Draghi said that new, targeted “macro-prudential” tools should be used first against possible market bubbles. He repeated that the ECB’s rates will stay where they are “for an extended period of time”.

    Earlier Thursday in Europe, Sweden’s central bank played catch-up with the ECB, cutting its key repo rate by a larger-than-expected 0.50 percentage point to 0.25.

    The Riksbank also said that, because inflation has been lower than expected, it now doesn’t expect to have to raise the repo rate “until the end of 2015.” At 0.1% in the year to May, Sweden’s inflation rate is even lower than the 0.5% posted in the euro zone.

    The Riksbank’s action sent the Swedish krona to its lowest level in three and a half years against the euro.