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能源成本上升 欧元区制造业复苏艰难

2026年3月13日 22:11 / 联合早报

西班牙政府考虑向企业和工人提供援助划，以减轻中东战火带来的经济冲击。图为3月5日西班牙马德里的证券交易所。 （彭博社）

荷兰国际集团首席经济师贝尔特·科莱恩指出，欧元区工业产出1月已降至2024年底以来的最低水平，随着中东冲突推高能源价格并加剧供应链扰动，欧元区工业生产尤其是能源密集型行业面临新风险。

星期五（3月13日）公布的数据显示，继去年12月下降0.6%之后，今年1月欧元区工业产出环比下降1.5%，为2024年12月以来的最低水平。当月，该地区主要经济体德国、意大利和西班牙的工业产出较上月均有所下降。

新华社引述科莱恩说，市场原本期待欧元区公共投资增加能带动制造业走强，特别是国防和基础设施领域的支出将推动制造业增长。然而，如果能源价格再次持续上涨，能源密集型行业的复苏前景将受到冲击。

科莱恩指出，2021年至2022年能源价格飙升导致欧洲能源密集型产业持续承受较大压力。近来欧元区制造业信心刚有所恢复，地缘政治紧张局势再次给该地区工业前景带来明显下行风险。

迪拜金融区遭袭 一栋建筑物受损 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月13日 21:52

3月13日，爆炸震动了迪拜的建筑物，一大片浓烟笼罩着这个中东金融中心的中心区域。 （法新社）

阿拉伯联合酋长国最大城市迪拜金融区一栋建筑遭到拦截的袭击物体碎片袭击。此前数日，由于伊朗威胁要袭击与美国和以色列相关的经济目标，多家公司已撤离该地区。

两名目击者星期五（3月13日）称，在听到巨响后，他们看到迪拜国际金融中心的一栋建筑遭到破坏。迪拜媒体办公室证实，迪拜市中心一栋建筑的外墙遭到成功拦截的袭击物体的碎片袭击。

一名法新社记者在听到巨响后，也看到了迪拜国际金融中心受损的建筑。

附近一个要求匿名的目击者告诉法新社：“我吓得从床上跳了起来——那是我听过的最响亮的声音。

“声音太大了，我往窗外看的时候，确信肯定有什么灾难要发生……地面都震动了，”他补充道。

另一名法新社记者描述说，他听到一声巨大的双重爆炸，震得建筑物摇晃，市中心上空升起一大团黑烟。

消息人士告诉法新社，星期三（11日），美国银行业巨头花旗集团、咨询公司德勤和普华永道等一些公司关闭了办公室或通知员工离开，这些公司主要位于迪拜国际金融中心（DIFC）。

伊朗发出威胁在中东顶级金融中心的核心地带引发了担忧，这里是众多国际公司和数十亿美元企业的所在地。

路透社报道，战争持续近两周，已有2000人丧生，其中大部分在伊朗，黎巴嫩也有许多人遇难，波斯湾地区的死亡人数也在不断增加。

能源成本上升 欧元区制造业复苏艰难

2026-03-13T14:11:04.000Z / 联合早报

西班牙政府考虑向企业和工人提供援助划，以减轻中东战火带来的经济冲击。图为3月5日西班牙马德里的证券交易所。 （彭博社）

荷兰国际集团首席经济师贝尔特·科莱恩指出，欧元区工业产出1月已降至2024年底以来的最低水平，随着中东冲突推高能源价格并加剧供应链扰动，欧元区工业生产尤其是能源密集型行业面临新风险。

星期五（3月13日）公布的数据显示，继去年12月下降0.6%之后，今年1月欧元区工业产出环比下降1.5%，为2024年12月以来的最低水平。当月，该地区主要经济体德国、意大利和西班牙的工业产出较上月均有所下降。

新华社引述科莱恩说，市场原本期待欧元区公共投资增加能带动制造业走强，特别是国防和基础设施领域的支出将推动制造业增长。然而，如果能源价格再次持续上涨，能源密集型行业的复苏前景将受到冲击。

科莱恩指出，2021年至2022年能源价格飙升导致欧洲能源密集型产业持续承受较大压力。近来欧元区制造业信心刚有所恢复，地缘政治紧张局势再次给该地区工业前景带来明显下行风险。

德国总理：美国放松对俄石油制裁为错误之举 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月13日 22:14

德国总理默茨批评美国放松对俄罗斯制裁、试图通过暂时允许俄罗斯出售石油来缓解伊朗战争引发的油价压力这一决定。

特朗普政府已经再一次发出许可证，允许买家接收已在海上的俄罗斯石油，此举扩大了上周给予印度的临时豁免范围。此举引发乌克兰盟友担忧，认为克里姆林宫可能从能源价格飙升中受益，并有更多资金为持续四年的对乌克兰战争提供支持。

默茨星期五（3月13日）在与挪威首相约纳斯·加尔·斯特勒共同举行的新闻发布会上说：“让我说得非常清楚：我们认为现在出于任何原因放松制裁都是错误的。”

彭博社引述这位德国保守派领导人说：“我们将而且必须继续加大对莫斯科的压力。我们不会允许伊朗战争让我们因此退缩或分心。”

Economic growth late last year was much weaker than previously thought

March 13, 2026 / 10:32 AM EDT / CBS News

New government economic data shows that U.S. economic growth was significantly weaker in the final three months of 2025 than previously reported.

The nation’s gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — expanded at a meager 0.7% annual pace in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. That is half the 1.4% growth rate the agency initially estimated last month.

For all of 2025, GDP grew at a 2.1% pace, representing solid growth, yet down from an initial estimate of 2.2% and slower than the 2.8% growth recorded in 2024.

Shutdown hit

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The U.S. government shutdown late last year severely impacted economic growth, with federal spending and investment plunging at a 16.7% rate, the Commerce Department figures show. That hacked 1.16 percentage points off fourth-quarter growth.

Inflation data, also released on Friday, indicates that consumer prices crept higher in January, a sign that costs continued to rise even before the Iran war drove up energy prices. Together, the two reports suggest the economy may not be as resilient to headwinds — including tariffs that have pushed up prices on some goods — as previously thought, economists said.

The new data “means things could be more fragile right now than we know. Keep in mind, this is January data, and a lot has happened in the past several weeks,” said Elizabeth Renter, senior economist at NerdWallet, in an email. “A weaker jobs report for February and inflation that remained above target before the war in Iran began all set the stage for potential fragility.”

Flaring inflation

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Prices rose at a 2.8% annual rate in January compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Friday in its personal consumption expenditures (PCE) report. That’s slightly below December’s increase, in a report that was delayed by last fall’s six-week government shutdown.

Excluding volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose at a 3.1% pace, up from 3% in the prior month and the highest in nearly two years.

“The latest personal consumption expenditures inflation data tells us that the inflation picture wasn’t looking good even before the Middle East crisis,” Sonu Varghese , c hief macro strategist at Carson Group, said in an email.

Inflation “is only going to head higher as the energy shock comes through,” Varghese added.

Fed conundrum

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The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged when officials meet next week, given the sharp rise in oil prices due to the Iran war.

The PCE data also showed that consumer spending was relatively flat in January after adjusting for inflation, while spending on goods decreased.

“For the Federal Reserve, this is the worst of both worlds: stubborn inflation that argues against cutting rates, paired with potentially fragile demand that is flashing early warning signs,” Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economics at Fitch Ratings. “The Fed can shrug off pockets of weakening growth, but resurgent inflation severely limits its room to maneuver, leaving policy potentially stranded for months.”

Edited by Alain Sherter

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-rising-diesel-price-may-affect-inflation-amid-iran-war/

New Iranian supreme leader ‘likely disfigured,’ Hegseth says

Hegseth said the U.S. is ‘decimating’ Iran’s military

By Alex Nitzberg
Fox News

Published March 13, 2026 8:29am EDT

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Friday morning press briefing that the U.S. “is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military” and that the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader was injured and “likely disfigured.”

“Desperate and hiding, they’ve gone underground, cowering,” Hegseth said of Iranian leadership.

“That’s what rats do. We know the new so-called not-so-Supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured,” he said.

TRUMP SAYS US ‘TOTALLY DESTROYING’ IRAN AND TO ‘WATCH WHAT HAPPENS’ FRIDAY

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a joint press conference with Admiral Charles Bradford “Brad” Cooper II, Commander of US Central Command, at US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on March 5, 2026.(Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the beginning of the war, issued a statement on Thursday that Hegseth described as “weak.”

“It was a written statement,” Hegseth said. “Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why. His father, dead. He’s scared, he’s injured, he’s on the run and he lacks legitimacy. It’s a mess for them. Who’s in charge? Iran may not even know.”

PENTAGON ESTIMATES IRAN WAR COST $11.3B IN THE FIRST SIX DAYS IN CLOSED-DOOR CONGRESSIONAL HEARING: REPORT

In this picture obtained from Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, looks on in Tehran on Oct. 13, 2024.(Hamed JAFARNEJAD / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)

“We’re on plan to defeat, destroy, disable all of their meaningful military capabilities at a pace the world has never seen before,” Hegseth said.

“Soon, and very soon, all of Iran’s defense companies will be destroyed,” he noted.

TRUMP WARNS OF IRANIAN ‘SLEEPER CELLS’ AS CANADA IS ACCUSED OF HARBORING REGIME OPERATIVES

Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on March 7, 2026.(Sasan / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

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“I serve God, the troops, the country, the Constitution, and the president of the United States and answer only to those, all in service of victory on the battlefield and the military objectives that we’ve laid out from day one: Defeat the missiles, missile launchers and defense industrial base, which I laid out today. Defeat the Navy and deny Iran the ability to have a nuclear weapon. Clear, decisive, achievable.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390850104112

德国总理：美国放松对俄石油制裁为错误之举 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月13日 22:14

德国总理默茨批评美国放松对俄罗斯制裁、试图通过暂时允许俄罗斯出售石油来缓解伊朗战争引发的油价压力这一决定。

特朗普政府已经再一次发出许可证，允许买家接收已在海上的俄罗斯石油，此举扩大了上周给予印度的临时豁免范围。此举引发乌克兰盟友担忧，认为克里姆林宫可能从能源价格飙升中受益，并有更多资金为持续四年的对乌克兰战争提供支持。

默茨星期五（3月13日）在与挪威首相约纳斯·加尔·斯特勒共同举行的新闻发布会上说：“让我说得非常清楚：我们认为现在出于任何原因放松制裁都是错误的。”

彭博社引述这位德国保守派领导人说：“我们将而且必须继续加大对莫斯科的压力。我们不会允许伊朗战争让我们因此退缩或分心。”

美贸易代表办公室启动第二轮关税调查

发布/2026年3月13日 22:28

美国对主要贸易伙伴启动首轮和第二轮的贸易调查，新加坡是被调查的贸易伙伴之一。图为新加坡的集装箱码头。 （郑一鸣摄）

（华盛顿综合电）继前一天以产能过剩为由对16个贸易伙伴启动调查后，美国贸易代表办公室星期四（3月12日）又以“疏于对强迫劳动采取行动”为由，对全球最主要的60个贸易伙伴启动调查，这回包括欧盟、中国、日本、韩国、加拿大、墨西哥、印度、台湾和英国。

美国的连串迅速调查行动，是为尽快建立一套新的关税制度，以取代上月被美国最高法院宣布违法的《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）关税。

美国贸易代表格里尔星期四晚发声明说，这项调查将确定这些经济体在行动和政策方面，是否有效禁止那些强迫劳动生产的商品进入美国，以及这些对美国商业是否带来负担或限制商业活动。格里尔已说，他希望在7月之前完成这些贸易调查，并提出补救措施。

格里尔说：“长期以来，美国工人和企业被迫与外国生产商竞争，后者可能通过强迫劳动这种祸害，获得了不公平的成本优势。”

此前，前总统拜登已在2021年12月底签署《防止强迫维吾尔人劳动法》，要求美国企业在进口新疆商品时，提供有关这些商品与强迫劳动没有关联的证据，打击来自中国新疆的太阳能电池板和其他商品。

美国曾指控中国在新疆西部，对维吾尔族和其他回教群体设立劳改营，北京否认这些虐待指控。

格里尔早前在星期三（11日）宣布美国对16个主要贸易伙伴的工业产能过剩问题，启动一项贸易调查，新加坡也列在内。许多主要贸易伙伴已经对此做出澄清和反驳。

新加坡贸工部已回应说，新方对美贸易是巨额顺差，总额多达270亿美元。而且，新加坡工业用地出租率维持在九成，且一直保持稳定。当局解释，新加坡土地稀缺，工业用途土地总量，因其他土地需求而逐渐减少。经济师也认为，没有具体证据显示新加坡的晶圆厂存在闲置产能，美方的说法似乎有些牵强。

欧盟星期四对美国的首轮调查提出反驳，欧盟委员会发言人吉尔说，产能过剩的源头并不在欧洲，并表明将对华盛顿做出“坚定和相等”的回应。

欧盟之前说，它要的是履行去年7月与美国签署的协议条款，并指美方任何新的关税，都应该落实当时双方商定的15％关税。

中国商务部星期五（13日）回应说，美方无权通过301调查，对贸易伙伴是否存在产能过剩进行单方面认定，中方保留采取一切必要措施的权利，坚决捍卫自身正当权益。发言人说，中方将密切关注事态进展。

日本内阁秘书长木原稔说，日方正在仔细审查调查细节，但将继续履行与美国现有的贸易协定。

韩国政府已表明，将就此事与美方密切合作，避免本国出口商遭受不利待遇。

挪威星期四指美国没有理由调查挪威的贸易行为。挪威贸易与工业部长米尔塞斯说，挪威的产业政策是透明的，与美国的贸易是平衡的，并表示将等待美方的调查结果。

马来西亚贸易部星期五说，双方仍在就产能过剩的问题进行磋商，尚未确定任何具体结果。

另一方面，美国海关与边境保护局星期四提交给法院的宣誓文件中说，为退还被裁定违法的约1700亿美元（约2176亿新元）关税的网上平台，已完成约七成。

海关局在3月6日提呈的文件提到，新系统最快可能在45天内完成，不过新文件未提及时限。

美国联邦国际贸易法院的法官伊顿说，海关局“正在取得令人满意的进展”。他要求海关局最迟在3月19日，提交另一份最新进展报告。此前，伊顿强调，根据《国际紧急经济权力法》征收的每一分钱的关税，都必须退还。

国际贸易法院至今已收到数千起诉讼，要求政府退还已征收的关税税额。

Toyota recalls 550,000 Highlander SUVs because seat backs may fail to lock

Updated on: March 13, 2026 / 10:03 AM EDT / CBS News

Toyota is recalling roughly 550,000 Highlander SUVs due to a supplier defect that could cause the seat backs to fail to lock properly, increasing the risk of injury.

The recall affects Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles, model years 2021 to 2024, equipped with recliner technology in the second-row seats.

The technology is intended to allow occupants to adjust the angle of the seats and then lock them in place. But the assembly teeth on the recliners may fail to fully engage in a locked position when the seat back is being adjusted, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

“A seat back that has not been secured in a locked position may fail to properly restrain occupants, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash at higher speeds,” the recall notice said.

The defective recliner technology was made by Toyota Boshoku Indiana, according to NHTSA. The Princeton, Indiana, manufacturing company makes automotive interior components for Toyota Highlander and Toyota Sienna vehicles.

In October 2023, Toyota discovered the issue with second-row seat backs during an inspection at a Toyota assembly plant, NHTSA said. In July 2024, the car maker also discovered that the supplier had made a design change to the recliner that it was not previously aware of, which prompted further investigations.

Toyota decided to issue the voluntary safety recall in February. The company is “unable to provide an estimate of the percentage of vehicles to actually contain the defect,” according to the recall notice.

Toyota is planning to send letters to affected car owners on April 20. Customers can bring their vehicle to a dealer, which will replace the defective technology free of charge. Toyota’s numbers for the recall are 26TB06 and 26TA06.

Edited by Alain Sherter

U.S. fugitive captured in Mexico 73 minutes after being added to FBI’s most wanted list, fastest arrest in history

March 13, 2026 / 10:31 AM EDT / CBS News

A U.S. fugitive was captured in Mexico just over an hour after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, making it the fastest arrest time in the history of the list and breaking a record set over 55 years ago.

Samuel Ramirez Jr., 33, was wanted for his alleged involvement in the murders of two women on May 21, 2023, at a bar in Federal Way, Washington, the Justice Department said in a news release. A third person was also injured in the incident. Federal Way Police Chief Andy Hwang identified the victims as Jessyca Hohn and Katie Duhnke.

An arrest warrant was issued charging him with the crimes, but Ramirez was believed to have fled the country after the killings. In November 2025, he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and a federal arrest warrant was issued, the Justice Department said. On December 10, 2025, the FBI announced a reward of up to $25,000 for his arrest and conviction.

The FBI increased the award amount to up to $1 million on Tuesday. He was added to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List that same day.

Just an hour and 13 minutes later, Ramirez was captured without incident in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The FBI credited its Legal Attaché office in Mexico City, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Washington, and Mexican authorities with his apprehension.

The previous record for the shortest arrest time in 1969, when a man was arrested two hours after being added to the list.

Ramirez was deported from Mexico to the U.S. and returned to Washington on Wednesday night, the Justice Department said. He will be booked into jail in King County, Washington. He will next appear in court for his arraignment, in about two weeks, the Justice Department said.

In a statement, Mexico’s government confimed the details of Ramirez’s arrest and reaffirmed its “commitment to work in a coordinated manner with international authorities to detain individuals wanted in other countries.”

Ramirez’s capture comes just weeks after former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who was also on the FBI’s most wanted list, was arrested in Mexico. Wedding, who was on the run for over a year, pleaded not guilty in January to 17 felony charges alleging that he operated a Mexican drug cartel.