Monthly Archive: January 2014

UBS Consumption Indicator Points to 2.5 Percent Swiss GDP Growth in 2014

2014-01-30

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2014-01-30

UBS Forecast Swiss Economy September 2013
FacebookShare As usual, the Swiss economy seems to be better than economists thought. After 1.40 still in December, the UBS consumption indicator has risen to 1.81, a value higher than the ones in 2012, when private consumption increased by 2.4%. Similarly as last year, the latest reading contradicts UBS’s own growth forecasts, albeit this year …

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SNB Increases Weight of Countercyclical Capital Buffer for Banks

2014-01-23

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2014-01-23

basel 3 capital requirements, common equity tier, hybrid, capital conservation buffer additional dier, countercyclical buffer
The SNB requires banks to raise the weight of the counter-cyclical capital buffers” (CCB) by holding extra capital worth 1 per cent of the risk-weighted assets in their mortgage portfolios.

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Inflation Difference between Eurozone and Switzerland Narrows to 0.5 percent

2014-01-10

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2014-01-10

Swiss CPI vs. Euro zone July 2013
Another five months till Swiss inflation is higher? When the European economy starts to expand again, who will hike rates first, the SNB or the ECB? December Update According to Swiss Statistics the inflation rate remained stable at 0.1% y/y, while the inflation measured by the European HICP standard was +0.3% y/y, slightly higher than … Continue reading »

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