The outcome was frighteningly similar to a bank run, but one that affected the entire wholesale money market.

其结果与某家银行倒闭惊人的相似，只不过这家银行会影响到整个金融批发市场罢了。

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Pic.39 a vendor counts money sitting on a heap of marigold flowers at a wholesale market in Calcutta, India, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.

图39 2010年2月5日星期五，在印度加尔各答的批发市场，一位小贩坐在一堆金盏花上数钱。

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And in another similarity, the European Banks are heavily reliant on short-term market funding, from sources such as the U.S. money funds that are among the biggest wholesale lenders on the planet.

另一个相似之处是欧洲银行业都高度依赖短期市场资金，且资金来源都是类似美国货币基金这样的全球最大的批发借款人。

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When that wholesale market gets a whiff of problems then the money simply flees.

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But the reason British Energy is losing so much money is that the price of electricity on the wholesale market has dropped 40% in the past four years.

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Knight Trading (nasdaq: NITE - news - people ), the largest wholesale market maker, suffered a 55% drop in revenue between 2000 and last year, when it lost money.

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