由于担心中东局势升级以及美国海岸外飓风威胁导致产量受挤压，油价大幅上涨。
Oil prices have risen sharply amid fears about escalating tensions in the Middle East and a squeeze on production from the threat of a hurricane off the US coast.
国际基准布伦特原油周四上涨3.8%至每桶104美元，引发全球债券和股市抛售潮。
Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose by 3.8% to $104 a barrel on Thursday, triggering a wave of selling in the global bond and stock markets.
据《大西洋月刊》报道，白宫已要求五角大楼拟定在美国中期选举前打击伊朗的方案。报道援引特朗普政府未具名官员的话称，潜在打击的规模、目标以及是否实施仍在讨论中。
The White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up options for strikes against Iran before the US midterm elections, according to a report in The Atlantic. The report cited unnamed officials in Donald Trump’s administration who said the size and targets of potential strikes, and whether they will go ahead, are still being debated.
该报道削弱了人们对特朗普将在下个月中期选举前避免升级与伊朗冲突的期望。报道称，“有限行动”可能在中期选举后升级为更大规模的行动。
The report has weakened hopes that Trump will refrain from escalating the conflict with Iran before the midterm polls next month. A “limited operation” could be followed up by more substantial action after the midterms, it states.
对伊朗的新一轮打击给中东石油供应带来进一步风险，美以针对德黑兰的战争现已进入第八个月。霍尔木兹海峡油轮遇袭事件达到战事以来最高水平，减少了该水道通行量，加深了对供应的担忧。
Another wave of strikes against Iran represents further risk to oil supply from the Middle East, with the US-Israeli war against Tehran now entering its eighth month. Attacks on tankers in the strait of Hormuz reached their highest levels of the war, cutting traffic through the waterway and deepening fears about supply.
英国海事贸易行动局称，最新袭击发生在周三，一艘油轮在卡塔尔北海岸附近遭多枚弹丸击中，造成人员伤亡。
The latest attack came on Wednesday, when a tanker was hit by multiple projectiles off the north coast of Qatar causing casualties, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations.
随着热带风暴伊赛亚斯增强为大西洋飓风季首个飓风，墨西哥湾产量受挤压，油价也因此上涨。
Oil prices also rose in response to a squeeze on production in the Gulf of Mexico, after the tropical storm Isaias strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
壳牌和雪佛龙均表示，随着风暴逼近该地区（预计将于周五或周六登陆），它们正在关停产能。
Shell and Chevron both said they were shutting down production as the storm approached the region, forecast to make landfall on Friday or Saturday.
丹麦航运集团马士基周四表示，将上调所有出口提货和进口派送的紧急燃油附加费，加剧了市场对能源价格上涨的担忧。能源价格上涨加剧了对通胀的担忧，强化了央行将不得不加息以控制物价上涨的预期。
Maersk, the Danish shipping group, added to worries around rising energy prices on Thursday after it said it was increasing its emergency fuel surcharge on all its export collections and import deliveries. The rise in energy prices has fed fears about inflation, reinforcing expectations that central banks will have to raise their interest rates in order to control rising prices.
全球债券市场的抛售周四延续。法国因债务上升和支出增长担忧而受到特别冲击，其10年期债券收益率上升6个基点至4.931%，仅低于上周触及的24年高点4.994%。收益率上升对应价格下跌。
A sell-off in global bond markets continued on Thursday. In France, which has been hit particularly hard over worries around its rising debt and growing spending the 10-year yield rose by 6 basis points to 4.931%, just behind the 24-year high of 4.994% it hit last week. Yields rise when prices fall.
作为欧洲债务基准的德国10年期债券收益率上升2个基点至3.504%。
The German 10-year yield, the benchmark for European debt, rose by 2 basis points to 3.504%.
被广泛视为市场上优质程度最高的政府债券的美国10年期国债收益率上升5个基点至5.331%。
The yield on the US 10-year treasury, which is widely considered the best quality government debt on the market, rose by 5 basis points to 5.331%.
全球股市也下跌，日本日经225指数下跌1.4%，韩国综合股价指数下跌2.6%。
Global stocks also fell, with Japan’s Nikkei share index falling 1.4% and the South Korean Kospi down 2.6%.
在欧洲，追踪全洲最大公司的斯托克欧洲600指数下跌1%。英国富时100指数周四早盘下滑0.6%。
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600, which tracks the biggest companies on the continent, dropped 1%. The UK’s FTSE 100 slipped by 0.6% in early trading on Thursday.