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週三歐洲股市走低,霍爾木茲海峽仍處於關閉狀態。

-- 週三,歐洲股市走低,油價飆升,儘管川普總統無限期延長了與伊朗的停火協議,但由於霍爾木茲海峽仍關閉。 史托克歐洲指數下跌0.4%,德國DAX指數下跌0.3%,英國富時100指數下跌0.2%,法國CAC40指數下跌0.9%,瑞士市場指數下跌0.5%。 根據彭博社通報,英國3月年度消費者物價指數(CPI)上漲3.3%,高於2月的3.0%,符合分析師預期。 3月CPI季增0.7%,高於2月的0.4%,也高於彭博調查的分析師預期的0.6%。 企業新聞方面,根據彭博社週二援引知情人士報道,T-Mobile的最大股東德國電信正在考慮與這家美國營運商進行全面合併,這將是史上規模最大的公開併購交易。該 報告稱,這家持有T-Mobile 53%股份的德國電信一直在考慮成立一家新的控股公司,以股票收購的方式收購兩家公司的股份。 T-Mobile和德國電信均拒絕對發表評論。 這家德國電信業者的股價在法蘭克福下跌了4.6%。 根據彭博社週三引述知情人士報道,匯豐銀行已將安聯保險、第一生命保險集團和住友生命保險列入其新加坡保險業務的潛在買家名單。 據匿名消息人士向媒體透露,這些公司正與顧問合作,準備在未來幾週內對匯豐人壽新加坡公司提出具有約束力的收購要約。消息人士還補充說,匯豐可能會尋求對該業務高達20億美元的估值。 匯豐發言人告訴,該公司“拒絕就市場猜測置評”,並表示其匯豐人壽新加坡部門仍在進行戰略評估。安聯拒絕置評,而第一三共和住友保險則未立即回應置評請求。 這家英國銀行的股價在倫敦下跌了0.5%。 路透社週三引述ASML執行長克里斯托夫·富凱的話報道稱,ASML產能和生產效率的提升應該可以避免其像近年來那樣成為晶片行業的瓶頸。 據報道,福凱週三在荷蘭費爾德霍芬舉行的晶片製造商ASML年度股東大會上表示:“客戶很可能會轉向其他供應商,甚至尋找我們技術的替代方案;我們過去就曾遇到過這種情況。” ASML股價在阿姆斯特丹上漲0.6%。 必和必拓集團週三表示,第三財季銅產量年減7%至47.68萬噸,而鐵礦石產量較去年同期增加2%至6,210萬噸。 該公司表示,預計2026財年銅產量仍為190萬噸至200萬噸,鐵礦石產量為2.58億噸至2.69億噸。 這家礦業公司的股價在倫敦上漲超過2%。

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