The world this week | Business | Jun 16 2022

1. 美연준, 한번에 금리 0.75%p 인상… 28년만에 ‘자이언트 스텝’
- Grocery prices were up by an average 11.9%, the biggest increase since 1979. The average price of a gallon of petrol in America has now breached $5 for the first time, up by 50% since January.
- Financial markets also had to digest the Fed’s quantitative-tightening programme, which began this week.

2. 유럽중앙은행 (ECB) 긴급 대책회의 소집
- The pressure on government debt came after the ECB outlined an end to stimulus measures and confirmed it would start raising interest rates next month.

3. 엔화가치 ‘24년만에 최저’ 기록(일본은행, 10년물 국채 수익률 0.25% 방어 총력전)
- The policy has driven the yen to a 24-year low against the dollar.

4. S&P 500지수, 공식적으로 약세장(베어마켓) 진입
- The S&P 500 was down by 22% since its record high on January 3rd, making that stretch of trading a bear market (a fall of 20% or more from the most recent peak).

5. 전 세계 가상화폐 가치 1년5개월만에 1조달러 밑으로 추락
- more signs emerged of problems with the infrastructure underpinning digital assets.
- The value of the overall crypto market has fallen from a peak of $3.2trn in November to less than $1trn.
- speculators losing their appetite for risk

6. 빌 게이츠 "암호화폐·NFT, 바보들이 비싸게 사는 상품"
- “Obviously, expensive digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely.”

7. 유럽 천연가스 가격, 러시아 공급축소에 이번주에만 42% 급등
- The Freeport plant in Texas has been a big supplier of lng to Europe since the start of the war in Ukraine.

8. 구글 엔지니어, “AI 쳇봇 람다, 인간처럼 지각력sentient 가져” 주장
- The application referred to itself as a “person” with a “soul” that is “alive”, concepts that philosophers usually grapple with.