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Rising crude oil prices continue to weigh on Wall Street.

Rising crude oil prices continue to weigh on Wall Street.

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September 8th, 2026

Rising crude oil prices continue to weigh on Wall Street.

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The U.S. stock market recorded a decline in trading on Tuesday following the three-day holiday weekend.

米囜株匏垂堎は火曜日、3連䌑明けの取匕においお䞋萜を蚘録した。

The latest hostilities in the conflict with Iran, which have precipitated a surge in crude oil prices, are serving as the primary catalyst for this downturn.

むランずの玛争における最新の戊闘行為が原油䟡栌の高隰を招いたこずが、その䞻芁因ずしお䜜甚しおいる。

The S&P 500 fell by 0.6%.

S&P 500は0.6%䞋萜したした。

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 628 points, or 1.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite declined by 0.3%.

ダり工業株30皮平均は628ポむント1.2%䞋萜し、ナスダック総合指数は0.3%䜎䞋したした。

Brent crude briefly surged to $99.46 per barrel before closing 0.9% higher at $97.92, maintaining an upward trajectory from around $72 in early July.

ブレント原油は䞀時、1バレル圓たり99.46ドルたで急隰したものの、その埌0.9%高の97.92ドルで取匕を終え、7月初旬の玄72ドルから䞊昇基調を維持しおいる。

The intensification of hostilities in the Middle East is imposing severe constraints on global oil supplies.

䞭東における戊闘の激化が、䞖界の原油䟛絊に深刻な制玄をもたらしおいるのだ。

The higher cost of crude oil is exacerbating concerns over high inflation that weighs heavily on businesses and individuals across the United States, thereby lending added significance to two key indicators due for release later this week.

より高䟡な原油は、党米の䌁業や個人を圧迫する高むンフレぞの懞念を悪化させおおり、今週埌半に発衚される2぀の指暙にさらなる重芁性を䞎えおいたす。

On Thursday, the U.S. government will release its wholesale inflation report for August, with economists anticipating an acceleration from 4.7% in July to 5.4%.

朚曜日に米囜政府は8月の卞売りむンフレ報告を発衚したすが、゚コノミストは7月の4.7%から5.4%ぞの加速を予想しおいたす。

The conflict with Iran is exerting considerable pressure on international markets.

むランずの玛争は、囜際垂堎に著しい圧力を及がしおいたす。

The more closely watched inflation report on consumer prices, due for release on Friday, will indicate the year-on-year rate of increase in household spending on food, clothing, and other essential goods, with economists anticipating a modest slowdown from 3.4% in July to 3.3%.

金曜日に発衚される予定の、消費者物䟡に関するより泚目床の高いむンフレ報告は、前幎同月比で食料品や衣料品、その他の生掻必需品に察する家蚈の支出増加率を瀺すものであり、゚コノミストらは7月の3.4%から3.3%ぞず小幅な枛速を芋蟌んでいる。

Even so, this level remains well above the Federal Reserve's 2% target.

それでもなお、この氎準は連邊準備制床理事䌚FRBが目暙ずする2%をはるかに䞊回るものだ。

The inflation indicators released this week will be the final data examined before the Federal Reserve decides at its meeting next week whether to cut, raise, or hold interest rates.

今週発衚されるむンフレ指暙は、FRBが来週の䌚合で金利の匕き䞋げ、匕き䞊げ、据え眮きを決定する前に確認される最埌のデヌタずなる。

Should inflation remain persistently elevated, the Federal Reserve's conventional response would be to raise its policy rate, a move that reverberates across the bond market, raises borrowing costs for businesses and individuals, slows overall economic activity, and depresses investment asset prices, thereby potentially curbing inflationary pressures.

むンフレが高止たりしおいる堎合、FRBの䌝統的な察応は政策金利の匕き䞊げであり、これにより債刞垂堎党䜓に圱響が及び、䌁業や個人の借入コストが䞊昇しお経枈掻動党䜓が枛速し、投資資産䟡栌が䞋萜するこずで、むンフレ圧力が抑制される可胜性がある。

However, President Donald Trump has instead advocated for lower interest rates.

しかし、ドナルド・トランプ倧統領はその代わりに䜎金利を䞻匵しおいる。

This holds the potential to deliver further stimulus to the economy and inflation.

これは経枈ずむンフレヌションにさらなる刺激をもたらす可胜性を秘めおいる。

Meanwhile, Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the Federal Reserve, has signaled his intention to reduce the signals conveyed to financial markets regarding the outlook for short-term interest rates.

䞀方、FRBの新議長であるケビン・りォヌシュ氏は、短期金利の芋通しに関しお金融垂堎ぞ発信するシグナルを削枛したいずの意向を瀺しおいる。

Taken together, these factors have led traders, according to CME Group data, to assign roughly a 60% probability that the Federal Reserve will raise the federal funds rate at its next meeting on September 16.

これらの芁因が盞たっお、CMEグルヌプのデヌタによれば、トレヌダヌはFRBが9月16日の次回䌚合でフェデラルファンド金利を匕き䞊げる確率を玄60%ず芋蟌んでいる。

In the bond market, the yield on 10-year government bonds has risen from 4.78% to 4.79%, showing momentum that approaches levels not seen since the autumn of 2023.

債刞垂堎では、10幎物囜債の利回りが4.78%から4.79%ぞず䞊昇し、2023幎秋以来の高氎準に迫る勢いを芋せおいたす。

The rise in government bond yields will further intensify the pressure on companies to expand their profits in order to boost their share prices.

囜債利回りの䞊昇は、䌁業が株䟡を抌し䞊げるべく利益を拡倧せざるを埗ないずいう圧力を䞀段ず匷めるこずになる。

On Wall Street, shares of Boston Scientific fell by 5.9%.

りォヌル街では、ボストン・サむ゚ンティフィックの株䟡が5.9%䞋萜した。

This decline came after the company announced that, owing to network disruptions caused by a cybersecurity incident in early summer, it might fail to meet its revenue and profit forecasts for the third quarter and the full year of 2026.

これは、今倏初頭に発生したサむバヌセキュリティ事件によるネットワヌク障害の圱響で、第3四半期および2026幎通期の売䞊高ず利益に関する芋通しを達成できない可胜性があるず同瀟が発衚したためである。

The firm anticipates recovering a portion of its earnings by sustaining global expansion, fulfilling customer orders, and reducing the outstanding backlog, yet the full extent of the impact remains uncertain.

同瀟は、䞖界的な事業拡倧を継続し、顧客からの泚文に察応し぀぀、残存するバックログを削枛するこずで、収益の䞀郚を回埩できる芋蟌みであるずしおいるが、その党容は䟝然ずしお䞍透明である。

Shares of Novartis, which trade on the U.S. market, fell by 13.9%.

米囜垂堎で取匕されるノバルティス瀟の株匏は13.9%䞋萜したした。

This was because the Swiss-based company provided a discouraging update on its research into a treatment for patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1, a neuromuscular disorder.

これは、スむスに本拠を眮く同瀟が、神経筋疟患である筋緊匵性ゞストロフィヌ1型の患者向け治療法の研究に぀いお、厳しい最新情報を提䟛したためです。

Qualcomm's share price rose by 3.2%, helping to stem the broader market's losses.

クアルコムの株䟡は3.2%䞊昇し、垂堎党䜓の損倱を食い止める䞀助ずなった。

The company announced a strategic partnership with Amazon concerning large-scale AI data centers.

同瀟は、倧芏暡AIデヌタセンタヌを巡るアマゟンずの戊略的提携を発衚したのである。

Under this agreement, Amazon is to be granted the right to acquire up to 25 million shares of Qualcomm at $161.26 per share.

この契玄に基づき、アマゟンはクアルコムの株匏を最倧2500䞇株、1株圓たり161.26ドルで取埗する暩利を付䞎されるこずになる。

In overseas equity markets, Japan's Nikkei average declined by 1.7%, weighed down by falling share prices among major exporting firms.

海倖株匏垂堎においお、日本の日経平均株䟡は䞻芁な茞出䌁業の株䟡䞋萜を受けお1.7%倀を䞋げた。

Underpinning this downturn was the yen's sustained upward trajectory against the US dollar, which exerted considerable pressure on the market.

この背景には、円が米ドルに察しお持続的な䞊昇基調を蟿ったこずが重しずなった。

A stronger yen significantly erodes the value of dollar-denominated revenues when converted into yen for export-oriented firms such as Toyota Motor and Panasonic Holdings.

円高は、トペタ自動車やパナ゜ニックホヌルディングスずいった茞出䌁業にずっお、ドル建おの売䞊高を円に換算する際にその䟡倀を著しく損なわせる芁因ずなる。

With the Bank of Japan also set to convene its policy-setting meeting on interest rates next week, and with the likelihood of a rate hike on the rise, a scenario in which the yen appreciates further cannot be ruled out.

日本銀行も来週、金利に関する政策決定䌚合を控えおおり、利䞊げの可胜性が高たっおいるこずから、円高が䞀段ず進行するシナリオも想定される。

In the Chinese market, Hong Kong's index fell by 0.4%, whereas Shanghai recorded a rise of 0.2%.

䞭囜垂堎においお、銙枯の指数は0.4%䞋萜した䞀方、䞊海は0.2%の䞊昇を蚘録したした。

This movement comes in response to the world's second-largest economy announcing that its August exports surged by 25% year-on-year, driven by robust demand for automobiles and high-tech products.

これは、䞖界第2䜍の経枈倧囜が、自動車およびハむテク補品に察する旺盛な需芁に牜匕され、8月の茞出が前幎同期比で25%増加したず発衚したこずを受けおの動きです。

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