2007年全球最受关注的事件莫过于美国的次级抵押债务危机,这场原本起源于美国房地产按揭市场一个初始规模相当小的信用违约率上升的事件,在不经意之间就已扩散到全球,造成了极大的经济恐慌.到目前为止,已有多家抵押贷款公司破产,全球最大、最为名声显赫的银行和投资银行（包括花旗银行、摩根、UBS、美林、高盛、贝尔斯登等等）无一例外地遭受到了巨额的损失.而全球资本市场的信心也由此遭到了沉重的打击,而世界经济发展的前景也就此被蒙上了一层浓厚的阴影,虽然各方对最终损失的估计不同,但所估算的金额都是极其巨大的.直到目前为止,这场危机仍然还在继续当中,而且影响将极其深远,人们开始反思过去一段时间全球金融市场发展所存在的种种问题,估计在未来一段时间,全球金融市场的一些制度可能会因这场危机而有所改变,而金融市场发展的方向也会有所调整.
In 2007 the most talked about events of the world than the United States sub-prime mortgage debt crisis,this was the origin of the real estate mortgage market in the United States a relatively small initial size of the increase in default rates of credit events,had been inadvertently spread to the world,causing great economic panic.So far,there are many mortgage companies going bankrupt,the world's largest,most prominent of the reputation of banks and investment banks (including Citibank,JP Morgan,UBS,Merrill Lynch,Goldman Sachs,Bear Stearns,etc.),without exception,subject to the huge losses.And confidence in global capital markets which also was a heavy blow,and the prospects for world economic development has thus been cast a shadow of a layer of strong,although the parties to estimate the ultimate loss of different,but the amount is estimated extremely significant.So far,the crisis is still continuing and will be extremely far-reaching impact,it is the beginning of a period of time to reflect on the past development of the global financial market problems exist,it is estimated that in the next period of time,global financial markets may be some system change crisis,and the direction of development of the financial markets will also be adjusted.