当地时间28日，以色列国防军发表声明称，以军对黎巴嫩南部多个地区的黎真主党基础设施进行了打击。以军在声明中表示，此次打击的目标包括火箭弹发射阵地和地下竖井。以军称，黎真主党利用这些设施对以色列发动袭击，近期还在这些基础设施内活动以试图恢复其组织能力。以色列国防军指责称，黎真主党的上述行为违反了以色列与黎巴嫩之间的谅解协议，对以色列构成威胁。以军强调，将继续采取行动消除任何针对以色列的威胁。（央视新闻）

特朗普政府寻求法院推迟审理其是否必须向进口商退还数十亿美元关税的程序，这些关税最近被美国最高法院裁定无效。 美国司法部周五晚间提交的一份文件显示，政府希望等待最长四个月后，再就退税问题在美国国际贸易法院重启诉讼程序。司法部的律师批评一起主要案件中所涉企业的律师，指责他们急于尽快重启法律诉讼。 “未来形势的复杂性要求采取审慎周密的推进方式，而非一味追求速度，”司法部表示。 司法部似乎承认，在最高法院败诉后将启动退税程序，并警告说“接下来的程序需要时间”，还提到早前大规模退款的案例耗时数年才得以解决。 但这份文件并未明确承诺政府将向所有进口商全额退还其缴纳的关税。 司法部律师写道，延迟诉讼程序不会对企业造成损害，因为“金钱损失属于典型的可补救损害，可以通过适当支付利息予以弥补”。 去年，政府成功说服法官允许有关部门在诉讼期间继续征收关税，并曾向贸易法院表示，若原告胜诉，“他们肯定会收到退税款项及利息”。 截至最高法院作出裁决时，进口商已支付了约1700亿美元的争议关税。 自由正义中心（Liberty Justice Center）的主席Sara Albrecht在一份声明中表示，“政府不能两头都占”。该法律组织曾在最高法院案件中代理相关企业。 “政府不能辩称因为可以退税所以没有造成损害，然后在退款的时候百般拖延，”她说。“美国企业缴纳了政府无权征收的税款。这些钱不属于华盛顿，而是属于辛勤工作的美国人民。” 责任编辑：刘明亮

Mechanics Bancorp ( MCHB ) declares $0.40/share cash dividend . The company also declares a $4.00 per share dividend of Class B common stock. Both payable March 19; for shareholders of record March 9; ex-div March 9. See MCHB Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Mechanics Bancorp Mechanics Bancorp 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation HomeStreet Acquisition Already Paying Dividends For Mechanics Bancorp Mechanics Bancorp GAAP EPS of $0.54 beats by $0.32, revenue of $259.99M beats by $52.64M Mechanics Bank to sell Fannie Mae delegated underwriting and servicing business line to Fifth Third Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Mechanics Bancorp

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's "not happy" with the latest talks over Iran's nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East. (Image credit: Luis M. Alvarez)

记者从北京市公安局交通管理局获悉，2025年电动自行车亡人事故数已占北京全部亡人事故总数的35%，而其中涉及闯红灯违法的事故占电动自行车亡人事故的24.4%，是引发交通死亡事故的主要原因之一。为遏制电动自行车事故高发势头，交管部门将在2026年开展针对性整治，通过执法劝导、加强宣传等组合措施，减少电动自行车交通安全隐患，切实保障市民群众生命财产安全。（央视新闻）

Roman Didkivskyi/iStock via Getty Images It will further fuel the acceleration of the Fed-favored PCE Price Index. The Producer Price Index (PPI) for services spiked by 0.81% (+10.2% annualized) in January from December, seasonally adjusted, the second spike in a row. The PPI for “core” goods, which excludes food and energy products, spiked by 0.68% (+8.5%), the most since 2022. PPI does not track import prices and tariffs; it tracks prices that companies charge each other. So it tracks how companies are shuffling the costs of the tariffs around amongst each other. But the PPI for finished core goods rose by a more modest but still high 0.42% (+5.2% annualized), suggesting that there is resistance to price increases amongst consumer-facing companies, as they’ve had a hard time passing on price increases to consumers without losing sales. The worst inflation impulses were in services in January, and the services PPI weighs 68% of the overall PPI. It moves the needle. The PPI for Final Demand Services spiked by 0.81% (+10.2% annualized) in January from December after the 0.67% spike in December, seasonally adjusted, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday (blue in the chart). The 6-month average rose by 4.1% annualized, a hair less than in December, which had been the worst since February 2025 (red). Within the services PPI, two of the three major categories moved up sharply: Trade services PPI (weighs 19% in overall PPI): +2.5% month-to-month, not annualized, driven by professional & commercial equipment wholesaling: +14.4%. Transportation & warehousing services PPI (weighs 4.9% in overall PPI): +1.0% month-to-month, not annualized. Finished services less trade, transportation & warehousing (weighs 38% in overall PPI): unchanged. Year-over-year, the services PPI accelerated to 3.44%, the third month in a row of acceleration. The low point, the point of the coolest recent services PPI inflation, was in December 2023 at 1.8%. Impact on the Fed-f...

格隆汇2月28日｜高盛发表研究报告指，银河娱乐公布截至去年12月底止全年业绩，其中末季业绩如高盛预期般强劲，EBITDA按季增长29%至43亿港元，符该行预期，并处于市场共识36亿至43亿港元之上限。而集团宣派末期股息每股0.8港元，相当于2025下半年盈利派息比率为64%，较2025上半年的58%、2024财年的50%进一步提高。管理层表示，有意今后派发至少65%的盈利。高盛认为，集团具备充足的财政能力进一步提高股息。 高盛表示，注意到临近3月4日至11日举行的全国两会，博彩及旅游需求可能潜在受影响。业绩方面，高盛微调了银娱2026至27财年的EBITDA预测，幅度少于1%，并将基于分类加总估值法，将12个月目标价从54港元降至53.4港元。该股目前估值不高，相当于2026财年预测企业价值倍数10倍，维持“买入”评级。

格隆汇2月28日｜近日，总部位于悉尼的对冲基金GCQ Funds Management公开发声，表示软件股的抛售潮已经见底，并已趁市场回调之际买入价值约2亿澳元（约合1.43亿美元）的科技股。该基金卖出了部分表现优异的股票，包括欧洲奢侈品公司的持仓，将资金重新配置到此前大幅下跌的软件板块。

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FMC ( FMC ) declares $0.08/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 2.17% Payable April 16; for shareholders of record March 31; ex-div March 31. See FMC Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on FMC FMC Corporation (FMC) Presents at Bank of America 2026 Global Agriculture and Materials Conference Transcript FMC Corporation: High-Risk Play In Fertilizers That I'm Unwilling To Enter FMC Corporation (FMC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Mid-cap stocks with lowest dividend growth grade FMC outlines $1B debt reduction and explores sale, projects $3.6B–$3.8B 2026 sales amid strategic review

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Crown Holdings ( CCK ) declares $0.35/share quarterly dividend , 34.6% increase from prior dividend of $0.26. Forward yield 1.22% Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 17; ex-div March 17. See CCK Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Crown Holdings Crown Holdings: Satisfying Free Cash Flow Reinforces 'Buy' Rating Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Crown Holdings downgraded at UBS as earnings growth slows Crown Holdings projects $7.90–$8.30 EPS for 2026 while targeting $900M free cash flow through capacity expansions Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Crown Holdings

沉寂许久的香港楼市，终于在2025年迎来系统性的复苏曙光。据香港中原地产统计，2025年全港住宅楼宇买卖登记量创下2021年以来新高，国际投行纷纷看好香港市场，从高盛到摩根大通，相继将2026年香港楼价升幅预测上调至10%以上，市场情绪正在发生实质性扭转。 2月27日新世界发展有限公司（00017.HK）发布的2026财年中期业绩也验证了这一点。财报显示，新世界2026上半财年合约销售达138亿港元，超越全年目标半数；核心盈利录得36亿港元，总债务减少17亿港元；香港市场合约销售103亿港元，创下2021年以来最高纪录。 “公司减债策略已见成效，业务发展态势持续向好。”新世界发展执行董事兼行政总裁黄少媚在业绩发布会上表示。透过积极主动的资本管理与业务深耕，新世界发展正在构筑起更为稳健的财务与业务根基，并清晰规划出可持续的增长路径。 新世界发展执行董事兼行政总裁黄少媚 经营财务双稳格局成型 为应对充满不确定性的行业环境，自2024年以来，新世界发展通过一系列举措，例如出售发展项目、推出资产出售计划、释放农地价值、加强投资物业业绩表现、优化资本支出与运营开支、积极管理财务等多重方式实现减债，不断增厚缓冲垫。 报告期内，新世界发展减债策略成效显著，财务韧性持续改善。截至2025年末，新世界发展总债务较期初减少17亿港元至约1443亿港元；同期，公司可动用资金合共约374亿港元，包括现金及银行结余约215亿港元及可动用银行贷款约159亿港元。 与此同时，新世界发展于2025年11月成功完成共约200亿港元的永续证券及有担保票据交换要约，按备考基准计算，未偿付永续证券本金减少约87亿港元，股东权益相应增加约87亿港元。 债务规模的持续缩小推动财务成本同步下行，截至2025年末，新世界发展的融资成本按年减少约6亿港元至31亿港元，平均利率下降80个基点至3.9%。 在进行资本管理的同时，新世界发展还着力提高经营效率，在成本管控方面精准发力，严控支出。2026财政年度上半年，该公司实现资本支出仅35亿港元，同比减少29%；一般行政及其他营运费用为15亿港元，按年节省18%。 接下来，新世界发展将持续严格控制支出，预期2025/26整个财年资本支出将少于120亿港元，彰显出严谨控制支出的决心。 报告期内，新世界发展的两大核心业务板块表现亮眼，形成双轮驱动格局。物业发展方面，上半财年...

格隆汇2月28日｜大华继显发表研报指，新鸿基地产2026上半财年基础溢利按年增长16.7%，相当于该行全年预测的约53%，主要受到物业销售盈利强劲增长、总借贷及融资成本下降带动投资组合盈利大致平稳所支持。中期股息按年增加3.2%至每股98港仙，高于市场预期。香港物业销售利润率按年下跌7个百分点至8%，净负债比率按年及按半年分别下降4.4及3.2个百分点至13.5%。 该行预期，集团香港物业销售利润率将自2026下半财年起恢复，香港及内地投资物业组合表现保持韧性并有扩张计划，管理层也重申会维持介乎于40%至50%的派息比率。该行将新地2026财年盈利预测上调5%，维持2027及2028财年盈利预测不变，并维持“持有”评级，目标价为143.8港元，重申继续视新地为捕捉香港楼市机遇的最佳选择。

Quaker Houghton ( KWR ) declares $0.508/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 1.38% Payable April 30; for shareholders of record April 16; ex-div April 16. See KWR Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Quaker Houghton Quaker Chemical Corporation (KWR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Quaker Chemical Corporation 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Quaker Chemical outlines 2–4% net share gain target and expects gross margin of 36–37% in 2026 as Asia Pacific momentum accelerates Quaker Houghton Non-GAAP EPS of $1.65 misses by $0.10, revenue of $468.5M beats by $3.33M Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Quaker Houghton

Myers ( MYE ) declares $0.135/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 2.41% Payable April 3; for shareholders of record March 13; ex-div March 13. See MYE Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Myers Myers Industries: Looking To Simplify And Improve Accountability Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Myers Historical earnings data for Myers Dividend scorecard for Myers Financial information for Myers

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Chinese researchers have released the world’s first open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model that unifies more than 20 Arabic dialects in an AI framework, a move poised to expand China’s technological influence in the Middle East, according to analysts. Led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s X-LANCE Lab – one of China’s top audiovisual and language processing research entities – the model is named Habibi, meaning “my dear” in Arabic. In presenting their findings, the research team spearheaded by...

As tech titans and world leaders descended on New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his ambition for the country to become a major global power in artificial intelligence – a technology currently dominated by the United States and China. “My vision is that India should be among the top three AI superpowers globally, not just in the consumption of AI but in creation,” Modi told Asian News International in an interview about the summit. Top tech...

A panda in China which would not let go of a mobile phone a tourist accidentally dropped into his enclosure has been dubbed a ‘smartphone addict’ by online observers. On February 22, a visitor accidentally dropped their mobile phone while filming the giant panda, Qingling, at the Dujiangyan Panda Base in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. The three-year-old panda grabbed the phone as if it were his new toy. He played around with it and even held it in a way that looked like he was taking a...

Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’? It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about “reading for pleasure” and “the joy of reading”. This is not a matter of whimsy. Research has linked reading for pleasure in childhood to a host of positive educational and socioeconomic outcomes. But now – 14 years after the Department for Education, in a more innocent time, commissioned a chunky report on the matter – reading books for pleasure is an activity in crisis. The culprit usually blamed for this falling-off is the smartphone and its many short-term distractions; the mere presence of a smartphone in the room, recent research suggests , has an impact on our ability to concentrate. People are losing the mental means of getting lost in literature, it seems. There are lots of things that seem to be slightly off-kilter here. If reading really was such an immense pleasure, wouldn’t people be doing it anyway? Isn’t there something of a contradiction between the idea of reading “for pleasure” and the notion that engaging in this activity brings a ton of extrinsic benefits (all that extra “attainment”)? There’s something else, too: surely it’s not only the reading itself that’s important, but what you choose to read, and what you do with the experience of having read it. The current moment’s anxiety around smartphones seems to have ironed out all the doubts and provisos that earlier ages – sometimes sensibly – placed around reading. In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the work of Byron – with all its “hopeless agony” – is not advised as sensible reading matter for a melancholy man, and the reading of novels has to be defended in her novel Northanger Abbey; Homer is excluded from Plato’s Republic in part because the poems include morally questionable scenes of gods behaving badly. I’m the last person to want to ban Homer. But self-evidently, there are so...

Tender jarred chickpeas make this colourful vegetarian dish a bit of a breeze to bring together Every now and then, something comes along in the food industry that is “better than sliced bread”, and right now I would say that thing is jarred chickpeas. Due to the way they’re processed, cooked at a lower temperature and for a shorter time, they tend to be softer than tinned and ready to eat in salads (a tinned chickpea, on the other hand, might need a five-minute boil to get to the same degree of softness). In any case, it’s safe to say that this innovation has led to an increase in my eating of chickpeas in salads, and today’s dish is a recent favourite. Continue reading...

He’s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks and a picture-perfect family, dogged by accusations of being a smooth‑talking elitist. Can he really unite the American left and win the most powerful office in the world? When you think of the politician Donald Trump isn’t, when you think of the norm he broke, the archetype he shattered, you might well picture a man who looks a lot like Gavin Newsom. Tall and handsome, hair coiffed just so, with a blond wife and four photogenic kids at his side, Newsom, who has been the governor of California since 2019 and is often described as the frontrunner to be the Democratic nominee for the White House in 2028 , looks the way professional politicians, and especially presidential candidates, look in the movies. It’s dogged Newsom for years, that look of his, perennially suggesting that he is, in the words of one California newspaper, “too ambitious, too slickly handsome, and too patrician-seeming” , especially for a populist age that cherishes the authentic and has no truck with anything either phoney or “elite”. The elite tag especially has hung around Newsom’s neck for decades, thanks to the fact that his ascent to the top of California politics has seemed smooth and unbroken, apparently eased by a childhood spent in the orbit of the Getty family, when that name was a byword for astronomical wealth. Continue reading...

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Greek leftwing intellectual and former minister says his indictment is indicative of far-right turn in western politics Yanis Varoufakis, the leftwing firebrand who briefly served as Greece’s finance minister, has criticised his “ridiculous prosecution” for allegedly promoting the use of recreational drugs after his public admission that he once took an ecstasy pill almost 40 years ago. The 64-year-old, who reminisced about the experience on a podcast, was charged on Wednesday with “inciting others in the illegal use of narcotics”. If convicted he faces a prison term of at least six months and up to €500,000 (£440,000) in fines. A court hearing has been scheduled for December. Continue reading...

There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse Sarah Lambert took her usual morning swim for 40 minutes off Exmouth town beach before her volunteer shift helping disabled people get access to the water. A wheelchair user herself, Lambert’s regular sea swims twice a week between the lifeboat station and HeyDays restaurant were the perfect form of exercise for her disability. Continue reading...

A damning fact-based drama about a UK water pollution scandal, and the French survivor of rape tells her harrowing story. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews Continue reading...

Brigitte, 27, an admissions officer for a nursery group, meets Jack, 30, a teacher What were you hoping for? Great food, great company and hopefully an evening that could be the beginning of something. Continue reading...