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　　新浪科技讯 北京时间2月15日上午消息，维基媒体基金会本周确认了备受争议的“知识引擎”项目所获得的捐款。

维基媒体基金会同时确认，维基百科将进军搜索市场，但维基百科创始人吉米·威尔士(Jimmy Wales)否认，维基媒体基金会将从事类似谷歌的业务。

维基媒体基金会此前拒绝披露来自奈特基金会捐款的细节。这导致了由社区选出的维基媒体基金会董事会成员詹姆斯·赫尔曼(James Heilman)去年12月的辞职。

在维基百科上出现相关文章，El Reg网站本周报道之后，维基媒体基金会公布了来自奈特基金会的25万美元捐款。这是总耗资250万美元项目的第一阶段。

早前英国媒体The Register曾经曝光的维基百科“知识引擎”设计文档

这笔捐款给知识引擎项目提供了第一阶段资金。知识引擎的目标是帮助用户通过互联网发现可靠、可信的信息。换句话说，这将带来搜索功能。

第一阶段的工作包括探索未来维基百科网站的形态，研究如何打通从搜索到内容呈现的通路，并通过运营商和OEM厂商去整合这一知识引擎。

维基媒体基金会表示，这一项目的最大风险在于谷歌或雅虎“可能突然向类似项目投入资源”。第一阶段，即“发现阶段”的工作将从今年8月31日开始，持续12个月。

威尔士则试图打消维基百科社区的担忧，即维基媒体基金会将基于知识引擎去开发商业搜索引擎。他表示，这种说法是“谎言”。

摘要：一些金融专家预言，美国的投资环境将退化，更多机会将在海外出现。有人建议关注欧洲和日本，避开依赖资源产出的经济体。但不同观点认为，在全球金融的不确定性中，美国股市仍然是个安全的地方。

Your portfolio of American stocks may have suffered lately but, to judge from major indexes, your portfolio of foreign stocks has probably done much worse for far longer.

Much of the difference can be explained by faster economic growth in the United States and a stronger dollar, which reduces the value of assets priced in other currencies. But all good – or less bad – things must come to an end, and many are encouraging investors to prepare for a shift in leadership and a prolonged period of relative strength overseas.

“In the rest of 2016 you’re going to have lots of opportunities in foreign markets, more than in the U.S.,” said Komal Sri-Kumar, president of Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, an investment consultancy. “Foreign markets have had better valuations, and they’re correcting much more sharply.”

Fundamental factors like the interest-rate policies of central banks also could make prospects more favorable for foreign stocks. The Federal Reserve just raised rates for the first time since before the financial crisis and signaled that it would do so four more times this year, although Wall Street is skeptical that domestic economic growth will warrant such aggressive credit-tightening. Other central banks, meanwhile, are headed the opposite way.

“Monetary policy and business-cycle differences play in favor of international markets,” said Steven Wieting, global chief investment strategist at Citi Private Bank. “Central banks in the eurozone and Japan are easing. More than easing in the eurozone; they’re catching up to where the U.S. was four years ago.”

The European Central Bank has been especially loose with credit as it tries to undo the damage caused by its earlier reluctance to match the Fed’s efforts to flood the financial system with money. The Fed’s quantitative easing program – purchases of Treasury bonds and other instruments – ended last year.

Mr. Wieting encourages investing in Europe and oil importers like Japan that benefit from depressed prices. He would avoid countries with economies that depend on resource production, notably Brazil, South Africa and Canada.

David Kelly, chief global strategist at J.P. Asset Management, says that “Europe is looking a lot more promising,” but he finds it “very hard to see Japan make any sustained progress” because of its low population growth and the likelihood of a change in government policy away from weakening the yen. A stronger currency would create difficulties for Japanese exporters.

There are enough difficulties in enough places for Hank Herrmann, chief executive of the asset manager Waddell & Reed, to recommend caution before venturing anywhere too far afield. American stocks represent safety to him in an unsafe world.

“I still think there’s enough uncertainty that staying home makes a lot of sense,” he said. “The difference between foreign and domestic may not be sufficient to overcome the uncertainties.”

Mr. Sri-Kumar acknowledges that much can still go wrong in foreign markets, especially in the developing world. In fact, he’s looking forward to it.

“I was negative on emerging markets for quite a while, but with things falling apart, I’m getting superoptimistic,” he said. He sees those markets, and markets dominated by commodity producers, reaching the capitulation stage, where downturns have gone on for so long and prospects look so bleak that investors just give up. That’s often when a lasting low occurs.

His advice is to invest gradually in diversified baskets of emerging markets and commodities, either directly or through shares of companies that produce them, over the next six months, feeding in the same dollar amount at regular intervals.

“You’re going to have a terrific pick beginning in March,” Mr. Sri-Kumar predicted. “The timing could not be better, especially in emerging markets.”

中国央行行长周小川谴责了“投机力量”瞄准中国人民币的做法。

他表示，从基本面看人民币不具备持续贬值的基础，中国不会让国际投机力量主导市场情绪。

在一个星期的春节长假之后，中国股市、汇市将会在周一重新营业。不让人民币贬值的努力让中国的货币储备受到了冲击。

目前中国仍然拥有世界上最大的外汇储备，价值3.23万亿美元。

然而在过去的六个月中，中国的外汇储备降低了4200亿美元。这是自从2012年5月以来的最低点。

就单单在一月份，为了确保人民币保值，中国人民银行的美元储备下降995亿。

周小川是在与《财新》杂志进行的采访中做出这番表述的。

他指出，“国际投机力量最近瞄准唱空中国的人民币。”

周小川还否认了有关中国的货币储备下降过快的担忧，他说，“只要基本层面不出问题，那么外汇储备增长或者下降都很正常。”

中国公布的2015年经济增长为6.9%，这是自从1990年以来最低的一年。有关中国经济放缓的担忧让很多投资者把钱转出中国，以希望能够获得更多的回报。

然而，周小川表示，中国不会因为而对资本流通加紧控制。“资本流通和资本转出是不同的两个概念。”

中国当局担心人民币急速下降而会给中国经济造成不稳。

很多中国的企业都有美元债务，用严重贬值的人民币来承担这些债务可能会带来问题，并导致一些公司倒闭。

中国之前有意引导让人民币逐步贬值，但是这似乎很难做到。

投资者试图从以人民币标价的投资中撤出资金，很多投机者认为人民币会继续贬值。

为了让局势稳定，中国一直在出售美元购买人民币。

另外中国还是用其它一些办法，其中包括禁止货币投机，以及让离岸银行保持其人民币的储备。