一家整形外科医生联合会周二发布的年度报告显示，2009年，美国整容手术数量连续第二年下降。 The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual...

好莱坞的一个胶片天花板终于被打破了，凯 瑟琳毕格罗成为历史上首位奥斯卡最佳女导演。 One of Hollywoods celluloid ceilings has been smashed now that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first female ever to win a Best Di...

《血色海湾》的导演及制片人在第82届奥斯卡颁奖典礼上 反映日本太地町诱杀海豚的纪录影片《血色海湾》(The Cove)夺得了第82届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片奖，这座奖项令该片有机会直面一个极其重...

What happens in Greece will not stay in Greece. Even though the country accounts for only 0.5 per cent of the world's economy, the crash of that profligate nation will have global consequences. The financial irradiation from Greece may be the biggest...

Here is a contender for most overused analogy of the year: buying naked credit default swap protection is like buying insurance against your neighbour's house burning down. Hedge funds bought it on Greek debt then fetched the fuel and matches, accord...

Is China a bubble? External market sentiment has gyrated wildly from one extreme, thinly supported opinion to another over the past year. 中国是个泡沫吗？过去一年来，外部市场的看法从一个极端没有确凿证据支持的观点猛...

Failure has always been a fundamental part of a market economy. When markets work, they do so because new ideas are constantly being tried out. Most fail. Those that succeed cause older ideas to fail instead. In the US, about 10 per cent of businesse...

There is still no easy way out. The crisis of confidence in Greek debt has eased, now that the European Union appears ready to help. The extreme price of insuring Greek debt fell sharply as a result. 目前仍然 难以轻松摆脱困境。由于欧盟...

Inflation in China jumped sharply last month, increasing the pressure on the government to begin raising interest rates and allow the renminbi to rise against the US dollar. 中国通货膨胀率上月大幅攀升，加大了政府提高银行利率和...

反映为公司借款人相比美国国债多付利率的公司债券风险溢价正在回落。 市场对花旗集团20亿美元的优先证券需求强劲。 Companies are aggressively borrowing in the debt markets once again-a sign of renewed conf...