美元已长期作为全球商品价格的基准，从石油到黄金，再到铁矿石，以及世界所有最重要的指数都是根据美元定价的。
The dollar has long been the global benchmark for commodities pricing, from oil to gold to iron ore, and all of the world's most important indexes are still priced in the greenback.
与此同时，尽管国内通胀居高不下，商品大国巴西也不得不降低基准利率来应付经济增长的急速放缓。
Commodity heavy Brazil, meanwhile, had to cut interest rates despite steep inflation in a bid to counter sharply slowing growth.
11月1日，纽约商品交易所在都柏林的期货交易所开张，并以公开叫价的方式交易作为世界三分之二原油的定价基准的布伦特原油期货。
On November 1st the NYMEX opened an open-outcry pit in Dublin to handle Brent crude futures, the benchmark contract for pricing two-thirds of the world's oil.
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