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Like many of its peers in retail （who had offered hazard pay as an incentive for workers to keep coming in during the pandemic）,
Amazon
ended
its bonuses
after an economic upheaval swelled the ranks of job seekers
.
和许多在疫情期间为工人提供高危补贴以吸引员工工作的零售同行一样，亚马逊在经济动荡引起求职者增多之后停止了福利发放。
1.upheaval: a big change that causes a lot of confusion, worry and problems
2.swelled the ranks: increase the number
3.swell: to increase or make sth increase in number or size
由于新冠肺炎疫苗试验结果喜人，提振了全球经济预期，削弱了投资者对避险资产的需求，金价本月走势震荡。
Platinum
is attracting renewed interest as a global push for
cleaner energy
and
waning
demand for gold promise to lift demand for the metal. The price of platinum has rallied 14% so far this month, despite edging down 0.5% on Friday to $964.80 a
troy ounce
.
由于全球对清洁能源的推动以及对黄金需求的减弱有望提振对铂金的需求，铂金引起了投资者新的兴趣。目前截至本月，铂金价格已经上涨了14%，尽管上周五小幅下跌了0.5%，跌至每金衡盎司964.80美元。
Less than 10 years ago, platinum was the most expensive of the major precious metals. It is used in
autocatalysts
, which
filter out
harmful emissions from car exhausts, and its high price prompted many auto makers to look for cheaper alternatives such as palladium. Both metals are used in catalytic converters.
不到10年前，铂金是几种主要贵金属中价格最为昂贵的金属。它用于汽车催化剂，过滤汽车排放的有害尾气，其高昂的价格促使许多汽车制造商寻找更便宜的替代品，如钯。这两种金属在催化转化器中都有应用。
Declining demand from car makers has led to a surplus of the metal in recent years. Platinum prices slipped in response, and have been largely flat since 2015.
But the coronavirus pandemic has shaken up the demand-and-supply dynamic for the metal, and is expected to lead to a record shortage of platinum this year.
近年来，汽车制造商的需求下降导致了这种金属的过剩。铂金价格随之下滑，自2015年以来基本保持平稳。
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While demand from jewelers and car makers has taken a knock, the crisis has driven money into
safe-haven
assets including precious metals. Investors’ positions in platinum futures rose by the most in just under a year last week, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
尽管珠宝商和汽车制造商方面的需求遭到冲击，但危机促使资金流向包括贵金属在内的避险资产。美国商品期货交易委员会的数据显示，上周投资者持有的铂金期货头寸创下近一年来最大增幅。
At the same time, investors are taking note of platinum’s role in a global push toward green energy. Renewable-hydrogen technology generates
combustible
gas from water and stores it in
fuel cells
that can be used to power homes and vehicles. Platinum plays a key role, both in
electrolysis
—the process of deriving hydrogen from water—and in the fuel cells used to store it.
与此同时，投资者也注意到了铂金在全球推动绿色能源的过程中所扮演的角色。可再生氢技术可以从水中电解出可燃气体，并将其储存在燃料电池中，可为家庭和车辆供电。铂在电解(从水中提取氢气的过程)和用来储存氢气的燃料电池中都发挥着关键作用。
本文节选自：The Wall Street Journal（华尔街日报）
发布时间：2020.11.30
作者：The Wall Street Journal
原文标题：Platinum Draws Investors as Gold Rally Stalls
