利比亚动乱与住房危机

????日期：2011年2月22日

????道琼斯指数：下跌174点，跌幅1.4%

????利比亚政治动乱不断升级，石油价格飙升6%，还有糟糕的住房数据，导致美国股市在2月中旬崩盘——这是2011年美国股市遭受的首次重大打击。2月22日，利比亚反政府示威活动进入第8天。鉴于利比亚石油产量约占全球石油总产量的2%，投资者担心，利比亚的抗议示威活动将会波及其他主要石油出产国。此外，标准普尔/凯斯席勒（Standard & Poor /Case-Shiller）房价指数报告显示，2010年第四季度，美国房市一片惨淡，房价比2009年下跌了4.1%。

????当时，我们并不知道穆阿迈尔?卡扎菲时代即将终结，我们也没想到，道琼斯指数1.4%的跌幅只不过是2011年的“开胃小菜”而已。

Turmoil in Libya and the housing crisis

????Date: February 22, 2011

????Dow: -174, down 1.4%

????Escalating political unrest in Libya, a 6% spike in oil prices, and weak housing numbers all contributed to a stock market rout in mid-February -- the first big hit to U.S. stocks this year. It was the eighth day of anti-government protests in Libya, which produces about 2% of the world's oil, and investors feared that protests would hit other major oil providing countries. On top of this, a report from the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index showed the last quarter of 2010 turned out to be a dismal one for national home prices, which fell 4.1% from 2009.

????Little did we know then that Muammar Qaddafi's days were numbered and that a 1.4% slide in the Dow would soon feel quaint.