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发表于 2011-3-16 03:01 PM
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EU’s Oettinger Channeling Media Reports on Japan Rattles Market
March 16, 2011, 1:43 PM EDT
By Jonathan Stearns
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Investors on edge over the prospect of a Japanese nuclear meltdown took their cue from a European Union commissioner who proclaimed a “major disaster” may be on its way, before admitting his remarks were partly based on media reports.
U.S. stocks tumbled after EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger testified to a European Parliament committee today in Brussels that the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant risks provoking a “major disaster” in Japan.
“The site is effectively out of control,” Oettinger told the panel. “In the coming hours, there could be further catastrophic events.”
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index sank 1.6 percent after his remarks.
Oettinger also said a further deterioration in the situation could lead to the deaths of people in Japan. “We are somewhere between a disaster and a major disaster,” he said.
His overall assessment is based on information from the European Commission in Brussels, the Tokyo-based EU mission to Japan and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, as well as media reports, Oettinger told Bloomberg after his appearance in the parliament. “All these experts who read with better glasses than mine,” Oettinger said.
Oettinger’s spokeswoman, Marlene Holzner, told reporters in a briefing earlier today in Brussels that the commission’s information about the situation in Japan “is partly from the media, partly from the government.” |
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