France is slowly selling off a portion of its trove, he explains, but buyers don't want the beat-up American gold.

他解释说，法国对黄金的销售量控制得很低，但买家不想要那些旧的美国黄金。

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If Italy defaulted, bond buyers might abandon France and Spain.

如果意大利违约，债券持有人也许会放弃意法国和西班牙。

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Denmark produced about 10 million Christmas trees this year, about 8.5 million of them earmarked for export. About half go to Germany, with Britain and France the next biggest buyers.

本年丹麦共出产了约1000万棵圣诞树，个中850万棵用于出口，个中约一半出口至德国，其次是英国和法国。

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Interpol says thousands of luxury cars stolen in Belgium,France, and Japan enter Cameroon's port of Douala each year, many bound for buyers in neighboring Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

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There has, he says, been an influx of overseas buyers both from the traditional areas of Western Europe and North America, but also from the emerging markets, including Russia, increasingly Brazil and from China where 5% of Sotheby's buyers in France now come.

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Germany and France have also promised cash bonuses to buyers of new green cars who scrap their old ones.

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Strategic corporate buyers are also returning to the takeover market France Telecom outbid private-equity bidders for Spain's Amena mobile operator last year, for example.

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