First a crisis, then calls to investigate. This is happening now with high oil prices.
危机出现，然后展开调查。这正发生在如今的高油价上。
Last Saturday, in Japan, finance ministers of the Group of Eight countries urged oil producing countries to increase production. But they also called on the International Monetary Fund and the International Energy Agency to jointly examine the recent price rise.
上周六在日本，八国集团的财政大臣敦促产油国增加石油的出产量。但他们也呼吁国际货币基金会和国际能源署共同调查最近的价格上涨。
I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that some G-Eight ministers were concerned about financial speculation. How important it is and what influence it has on the market will be investigated, he says. A report is expected in October.
IMF主席Dominique Strauss-Kahn表示，一些八国集团的财政大臣所关心的是金融投机的问题。他说，它的重要性以及它对市场的影响将会被调查。相关报告预计在十月发表。
In the United States, government agencies are already looking for ways to increase supervision of oil markets.
在美国，政府机构已经在寻找加强对石油市场监管力度的方法。
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission just reached an agreement with a London electronic exchange, ICE Futures Europe. ICE, the Intercontinental Exchange, agreed to observe the same trading limits as American markets. Some people have called ICE Futures Europe a "dark market," a market with little supervision.
商品期货交易委员会刚刚与伦敦电子交易市场——欧洲期货交易所达成一致意见。ICE——能源市场洲季交易所，同意遵守与美国市场相同的贸易限制。一些人将ICE欧洲期货交易所称为“黑市”，一个几乎没有监管的市场。
Regulators want to know more about who is trading in oil futures. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a quantity of a product at a set price and date in the future. The New York Mercantile Exchange began trading oil futures in nineteen eighty-three.
管理者希望了解更多原油期货交易者的信息。期货合同一项按照商定的价格和日期在将来某时购买一定数量产品的协议。纽约商业期货交易所于1983年开始原油期货的贸易。
Futures:期货
Jointly: 共同地,联合地;连带地
Speculation: 投机;投机买卖[(+in)] 思索;沉思;推测[(+about/on/upon)]
Supervision: 管理;监督
Commodity: 商品;日用品
Intercontinental: 大陆间的;洲际的
Mercantile: 商人的;商业的,贸易的
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