周五下午，英国大选结果显示，这个多年来变数最大的大选产生了一个“无多数议会”(hung parliament)。但保守党领袖大卫•卡梅伦(David Cameron)能否当选英国新首相，前景仍不明朗。
卡梅伦坚称，由于保守党所获席位大增、轻松超越工党成为议会第一大党，工党已“丧失执政权”。但他仍需耐心等上一段时间，才可了解到自己能否联合到足够席位、从而在下议院占据多数。
因有迹象显示，本次大选不会产生一边倒的结果，英国现任首相戈登•布朗(Gordon Brown)正与有关方面展开紧急谈判，力争让他领导下的工党与尼克•克莱格(Nick Clegg)领导下的自由民主党结成联盟，以避免让保守党上台执政。
被人们认为更能代表英国国内经济表现的富时250指数(FTSE 250)，下跌了195点，至6707.59点，跌幅为2%.
英国国债和英镑继续下跌。交易员们预计，在下届政府的构成明朗之前，波动性很难消退。
英镑在伦敦当地时间晚间起伏颇大。在大选的初步结果公布时，英镑兑美元曾回升至1英镑兑1.49美元的水平。而当大选结果开始显示，没有任何一个党派能够赢得在下议院占据绝对多数所需的326席时，英镑开始下跌。截至伦敦当地时间上午8:00，英镑兑美元跌至1英镑兑1.4679美元。欧元兑英镑则涨至1欧元兑0.8656英镑，涨幅接近0.01英镑。
英国《金融时报》大卫•奥克利(Michael Hunter)、迈克尔•亨特(Neil Dennis)补充报道，(更新时间：北京时间18:00)
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001032520
David Cameron's hopes of becoming prime minister were on a knife edge on Friday morning, as results suggested the most unpredictable general election in years would produce a hung parliament.
The Conservative leader insisted that Labour had “lost its mandate to govern” as the Tories made big gains and easily overtook Labour as the largest party at Westminster. But he faced an agonising wait before learning whether he could assemble enough seats to command a Commons majority.
Amid signs that the election would produce no clear result, Gordon Brown was engaged in frantic talks on whether he could stitch together a coalition of his Labour party with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats to keep the Tories out of power.
The FTSE 250, seen as more representative of the domestic UK economy, lost 2 per cent to 6,707.59, a fall of 195 points.
UK government bonds and sterling continued to fall and traders expected stubborn volatility as long as the make-up of the next government remained unclear.
Sterling had a volatile night – it had recovered to the $1.49 level as the early results came in, but by 4am, as it began to look like no single party would claim the 326 seats needed for an overall majority, the pound began to lose it footing. By 8am it was down to $1.4679. The euro rose almost a penny against the pound to ￡0.8656.
By Michael Hunter and Neil Dennis
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