Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News

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Switzerland signs up to corporate tax dodging remedy

2017-06-11

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2017-06-11

Switzerland has officially agreed to a raft of measures to combat the tax avoidance tricks of multinational companies. More than 100 countries have pledged to tackle the so-called base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) shenanigans. Huge companies, such as Starbucks, Amazon and Fiat, have been publically taken to task by the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the way they distort their tax bills.

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Few tenants take advantage of rent controls

2017-06-10

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2017-06-10

Anyone who rents a home in Switzerland (more than 60% of households) could qualify for a rent reduction after the Federal Housing Office reduced the reference rate on June 1. However, not everyone bothers to ask, and not all those who do get a positive response from landlords.

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Swiss government moves a step closer to axing capital withdrawals from pensions

2017-06-09

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2017-06-09

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Swiss pensions have three parts. The first is a standard payment based on the number of years you have paid social security taxes (AVS / AHV). The second (2nd pillar) is based on a personal pot of money built up from compulsory salary deductions. And the third is a personal pot derived from optional tax deductible savings, known as a 3rd pillar.

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World’s longest railway tunnel victim of own success

2017-06-09

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2017-06-09

Almost 10,000 passengers and around 67,000 tonnes of freight pass through the 57-kilometre-long Gotthard Base Tunnel each day. Opened a year ago on June 1, the Gotthard's success is putting the structure to the test.

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Negative Rates: The New Gold Rush… For Gold Vaults

2017-06-09

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2017-06-09

Negative interest rates and the populist uprising that spurred the UK to vote for Brexit and Americans to elect Trump has helped reignite a rush into physical safe haven assets like gold and silver, which however has led to a shortage of safe venues where to store the precious metals (unlike bitcoin, gold actually has a physical dimension).

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Börsen-Talk vom 9. Juni 2017

2017-06-08

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Wann steigen die Kurse an der Schweizer Börse wieder und bei welchen Titeln lohnt sich ein Einstieg? Research-Leiter Remo Rosenau gibt im Börsen-Talk Auskunft.

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Switzerland not the most expensive in Europe for some mobile packages

2017-06-08

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2017-06-08

Yesterday, the price comparison website Verivox published a study comparing mobile phone costs across 13 european countries. On most measures Switzerland was the most expensive, and by a wide margin. A plan including 100 minutes of talk and 1 Go (gigaoctet1) of data per month costs an average of CHF 25 per month in Switzerland

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Matt Ridley: The EU Won’t Survive in Its Present Form

2017-06-07

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Matt Ridley: The EU Won’t Survive in Its Present Form

2017-06-07

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Ist unser Geldsystem etwa doch teuflisch?

2017-06-07

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2017-06-07

In seinem Standpunkt „Wie entsteht Geld“ (Inside Paradeplatz vom 31.5.2017) bekräftigt Marc Meyer seine These, dass die herrschende Geldschöpfungstheorie grundlegend falsch sei, weil sie auf Goethes Mephisto basiere. Schon vor vielen Jahren hat sich Meyer für eine alternative Theorie der Geldschöpfung eingesetzt. Dass er deswegen seine Stelle verlor und ein Leben lang vom Arbeitsmarkt der Banken ausgeschlossen wurde, ist ein Skandal.

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Giant carbon-sucking commercial plant launches in Zurich

2017-06-07

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2017-06-07

The world’s first commercial plant to extract carbon dioxide at industrial scale from the air and sell it directly to a buyer opened near Zurich on Wednesday. The machine pipes the gas to a nearby greenhouse to help grow vegetables. The Swiss firm Climeworks external linkturned on the so-called ‘Direct Air Capture (DAC)’ plant in the farming village of Hinwil, Switzerland. The plant aims to supply 900 tonnes of CO2 annually to a nearby greenhouse...

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BioTime’s CEO: Human Aging Will Soon Become a Thing of the Past

2017-06-06

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BioTime’s CEO: Human Aging Will Soon Become a Thing of the Past

2017-06-06

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Bern museum sells part of controversial inheritance

2017-06-06

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2017-06-06



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Alois Vinzens, CEO Graubündner Kantonalbank

2017-06-06

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Der Schweizer Hypothekarmarkt steht wegen der Digitalisierung vor einem Umbruch, sagt Alois Vinzens, CEO der Graubündner Kantonalbank, im Interview mit cash. Die SNB-Negativzinsen sieht er bis 2019 auf dem derzeitigen Stand.

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Grant Williams: Get Out of Equities Before Boomers Are Forced to Sell Them

2017-06-05

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Grant Williams: Get Out of Equities Before Boomers Are Forced to Sell Them

2017-06-05

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Switzerland: Man Convicted For “Liking” Apparently Slanderous Facebook Comments

2017-06-05

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2017-06-05

In the United States, a crazed racist is currently facing murder charges for stabbing multiple men who attempted to stop him from harassing two teenage girls. In a court appearance, he justified his murder of two Americans, one a military veteran, by citing “free speech.”

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Sweeteners proposed for revised corporate tax reform

2017-06-04

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2017-06-04

The government will consider a package of voter-friendly sweeteners, including extra child benefits, as it strives to breathe new life into controversial company tax reforms. The new proposals come less than four months after Swiss voters rejected a major overhaul of the corporation tax landscape.

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Switzerland remains competitive despite issues

2017-06-04

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2017-06-04

The strong franc and corporate tax uncertainty have failed to dislodge Switzerland from second place in an annual ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. The alpine state was also judged by the Lausanne-based IMD business school to have the world’s eighth best digital capability. For the second year in a row, Switzerland was only outclassed by Hong Kong in the 2017 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbookexternal link, released on Wednesday.

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