Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News

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Swiss researchers create world’s tiniest light-emitting diodes

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Researchers at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich have produced what they claim to be the world's smallest light-emitting diodes. The tiny diodes will enable ultra-sharp screens and microscopes, but also opens up entirely novel possibilities for wave optics applications. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The researchers have developed extremely …

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Thousands go onion-crazy in Swiss capital

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Bern’s traditional annual onion market, known as the Zibelemärit in Swiss German, got off to a busy start in the early hours of Monday morning despite bad weather conditions. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the festival in the Swiss capital. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The …

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The remarkable tale of a Swiss village in Rhode Island 

2025-11-23

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2025-11-23

There is an unusual farmstead in the US state of Rhode Island that would not look out of place in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The story of the 'Swiss village' in Newport is a surreal journey that spans architectural splendour, philanthropy and genetic research. During the so-called Gilded Age in the United States in the late 19th …

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COP 30: Switzerland reinvigorates its climate offsetting plan

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

As negotiations at the United Nations climate conference in Belém drew to a close, Switzerland announced the creation of an alliance of countries supporting a carbon offset scheme it pioneered. On Friday, Switzerland’s environment ministry disclosed the launch of the Article 6 Ambition Alliance, a group of 10 nations working together under the Paris agreement …

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Lower US tariffs likely in December: Swiss minister

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

Swiss economics minister Guy Parmelin hopes to see reduced United States tariffs from the beginning of December. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "In Switzerland, we are ready", Parmelin told Swiss public broadcaster SRF. In the US, it will take a little more time. A week ago, Switzerland and the US …

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How a global plan to preserve forests launched a carbon offset debate

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

Efforts to preserve rainforests were high on the agenda at the latest United Nations climate conference, held at the edge of the Amazon. The journey of a UN-backed scheme to prevent deforestation through carbon payments and offsets exposes the challenges of influencing climate-related practices from afar. In 2013, two years ahead of the historic Paris …

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Swiss regulator warns of mortgage market risk

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) fears that financial centre risk is becoming increasingly tense. Developments in the mortgage market are particularly worrying. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Prices have continued to rise and the risk of a correction is correspondingly high," warned Finma director Stefan Walter in an …

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Disposable income, Zurich’s conversion therapy ban and gold coins stolen from a Swiss museum

2025-11-21

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Most Swiss households have a disposable income below the national average, Zurich considers a ban on conversion therapies, and has Switzerland just had its own Louvre-style heist? Here are three stories from Switzerland this week. Visit Swissinfo to read the latest. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international...

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Why Swiss farmers dye surplus tubers for animal feed

2025-11-21

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2025-11-21

A bumper harvest has left Swiss farmers with more potatoes than the market can handle. Instead of ending up on dinner plates, many will be fed to cows – but only after being coloured and the farmers compensated. In the barn of farmer Andreas Schwab in canton Bern, three large trailers are piled high with … Continue...

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Davos assured Trump ‘woke’ topics were off the agenda

2025-11-21

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2025-11-21

Donald Trump agreed to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos in January after organisers gave assurances that overtly “woke” topics would not feature prominently at the annual Alpine gathering, according to people familiar with the talks. At a meeting in the autumn, Trump administration officials asked WEF officials to scrub or pare …

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Swiss again European train champions

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Every Swiss resident travelled an average of 2,519 kilometres by train last year, surpassing the 2019 record of 2,505 kilometres. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On average, everyone in Switzerland used the train 71 times in 2024. Compared with the previous year, the number of kilometres travelled (+2.2%) and the …

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UBS boss dismisses Swiss exodus rumours as ‘absurd’

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti dismisses speculation that the bank is looking to leave Switzerland, saying that management is seeking a compromise on the controversial new capital requirement rules. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The fact that UBS is a Swiss bank "is the best possible solution and that's what the …

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Online-Trading einfach erklärt: In 2 Min. informiert handeln

2025-11-20

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Börsen-Talks und Interviews mit Persönlichkeiten aus Finanz und Wirtschaft. Publiziert von cash.ch.

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Swiss construction firms probed for price fixing

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

The Swiss Competition Commission (Comco) has opened an investigation into six firms suspected of fixing prices for tenders in the Swiss canton of Jura. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For several years, these companies were alleged to have colluded in public and private tenders for civil engineering and building work, …

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Swiss workers suffer from emotional exhaustion

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Swiss workers are increasingly emotionally exhausted after, finding it difficult to switch off, according to the Working Conditions Barometer from the trade union umbrella organisation Travail.Suisse. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A barometer is carried out every year by Travail.Suisse and the Bern University of Applied Sciences. For the 2025 …

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Swiss foreign trade sluggish in October

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Switzerland's international trade stagnated in October, on both the export and import sides, reflecting the uncertainties weighing on the global economy. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, the watchmaking industry rebounded for the first time since July. In the month under review, seasonally adjusted exports stagnated at CHF22.53 billion, representing …

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Novartis extends mid-term growth targets

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Novartis is extending its medium-term outlook by one year. Over the period 2025-2030, the Swiss pharma giant aims to achieve annualised, currency-adjusted growth of around 5 to 6%, compared with more than 6% over the period 2024-2029. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Management is aiming to restore the core operating …

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Explainer: Will Swiss supermarkets be inundated with cheap, hormone-filled beef after US tariff deal?

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

The US has reduced tariffs on Swiss exports from 39% to 15% but has wrangled duty-free access for American meat, fish and chicken in return. Should Swiss consumers be worried? The announcement on August 1 of a 39% tariff on all Swiss imports into the United States sent shockwaves through Switzerland. It came as a …

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Trump and the Epstein files, UBS speculation, and nuclear tests

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. The big political news in Switzerland this week was the announcement on Friday of a trade deal with … Continue...

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Switzerland misses transalpine freight targets

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

The shift of transalpine freight traffic from road to rail in Switzerland has stalled in the last two years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The access routes are slowing down. The Federal Council is therefore lobbying neighbouring countries for rapid modernisation. The modal shift target of 650,000 lorry journeys set …

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