「（世間などを）騒がせる」。
The Australianの記事、'Australian floods stoke cotton-supply fears'から。
'COTTON prices skyrocketed to a 140-year high overnight as investors bet supplies would tighten further before the next harvest.
Prices for cotton powered to a new post-Reconstruction Era high for the second consecutive day.
Deadly floods in major grower Australia have stoked fears that the country's growers will be unable to meet their contract obligations, pushing prices even higher.
Benchmark cotton futures touched $US1.6789 a pound during intraday trading overnight. This is the highest level for the fibre in more than 140 years. Records from the Mississippi Historical Society show cotton fetched $US1.89lb during the peak of the US Civil War.'
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