On that day Thailand ran out of foreign-exchange reserves trying to defend its currency from a huge speculativeattack.
那一天,泰国为抵抗针对汇率的投机性的攻击,耗尽了自己的外汇储备。
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It is reassuring that none of them has much foreign debt, and that their currencies and securities are only lightly traded, creating little scope for a speculativeattack.
The Italian bond market is the world's third-largest. Such a large and liquid market is less vulnerable to speculativeattack than a small one, such as Greece's or Portugal's.