Profits at China's industrial firms surged in March as the war in the Middle East upended global oil markets and sent raw material costs soaring. Industrial profits jumped 15.8% from a year earlier in March, National Bureau of Statistics data showed Monday, accelerating from the 15.2% surge in the first two months of this year. In the first three months this year, enterprise profits expanded 15.5%, the fastest start to any year since 2018, barring the pandemic-driven spike in 2021. The upswing