去年，全球对亚洲看淡时，马来西亚国家石油公司2006 年到期的美元债券与同等的美国国库券相差1200个基点，但随着市场对马来西亚政府拖延偿还外债的忧虑减低后，差距已经缩小。

• When sentiment towards Asia was at its low last year, the Petronas 2006 US%24bond was trading at a huge spread of 1,200 basis points over the equivalent U.S. treasury, and since then the spread has narrowed as fears over a possi-bility that the Malaysian government would default on its external liabilities subsided.