Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News

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Who Has To Work The Longest To Afford An iPhone?

2016-12-13

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2016-12-13

Time Required for Iphone 6
How many hours must you work to buy a new iPhone? It varies dramatically around the world, reflecting disparities in productivity and purchasing power. According to a recent report by UBS that aims to measure well-being by estimating how many minutes workers in various countries must work to afford either an iphone, a Big Mac, a kilo of bread or a kilo of rice, the average worker in Zurich or New York can buy an iPhone 6 in under three working days.

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cash-Talk vom 12. Dezember 2016

2016-12-12

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Im cash-Talk erklärt Vorsorgespezialist Willy Graf, wie ein frühzeitiger Ruhestand verwirklicht werden kann. Ausserdem warnt er vor zu hohen Einkäufen in die Pensionskasse. Denn mehr ist nicht immer besser.

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Credit Suisse planning more Swiss job cuts

2016-12-11

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2016-12-11

Credit suisse Zurich
Credit Suisse Group AG is preparing a new cost-savings program that puts as many as 1,300 jobs in Switzerland on the line, according to Schweiz am Sonntag. The plan will be announced Wednesday, when the lender holds its investor day in London, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information. Credit Suisse’s Swiss unit may slash an additional 1,000 to 1,300 positions, or about eight to 10 percent of the unit’s workforce, it said.

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Which Of These Would You Rather Have In Your Safe?

2016-12-10

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2016-12-10

Safe
Let’s say you have two equal size safety deposit boxes. One box you completely fill up with stacks of $100 bills. The other box you fill up with gold. Which of the two is “worth” more? It’s easy to calculate. A stack of 100x $100 bills is 6.14 inches long, 2.61 inches wide, and 0.43 inches tall. That’s a volume of 6.89 cubic inches (112.92 cubic centimeters… and we’ll use the metric system from here on out because it really does make more...

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Pension payments could become compulsory for self-employed in Switzerland

2016-12-10

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2016-12-10

Swiss francs
Switzerland’s Federal Council is looking at a proposal to make pension payments compulsory for self-employed workers in the same way that they are for salaried workers.

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Adoption Of The Euro Has Been ‘Unequivocally Bad’ For Southern European Economies

2016-12-10

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2016-12-10

Some say that the common currency prevents less productive economies from cheating by weakening their national currencies and forces them to become more efficient and competitive. Industrial production data shows that it is not the case. Italy, France, Greece and Portugal have not only stopped producing more; they are producing now less than in 1990! The decay started immediately after the introduction of the euro in 2002!

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Uncertainty prevails everywhere, says Draghi, but apparently investors don’t mind

2016-12-09

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2016-12-09

SMI vs. MSCI World, December 09
According to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi “uncertainty prevails everywhere” but apparently investors don’t mind. Market participants shrugged off last weekends “no” to constitutional reform in Italy and the subsequent resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to push European indices to 12 month highs this week.

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Swiss EU immigration – unfortunately there is no plan B, says president in interview

2016-12-09

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2016-12-09

Switzerland’s plan to solve an immigration dilemma with the European Union could avoid being held up by another referendum if it gets strong support in parliament next week, according to Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann. A clear result in a final vote on Dec. 16 with the Swiss People’s Party, or SVP, in the minority could make it “delicate” for the group to push for another plebiscite, he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Guy...

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Umuzi | An Out of the Ordinary Academy

2016-12-08

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Watch how Verona Banda’s life and job prospects have been transformed by the Umuzi Academy: www.liveoutoftheordinary.co.za

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Care for Wild: An Out of the Ordinary Orphanage

2016-12-08

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In celebration of World Rhino Day, Investec Rhino Lifeline is focusing its efforts on raising money for Care for Wild. This organisation based in Mpumalanga, South Africa, raises young rhino who have been orphaned or injured as a result of poaching until they can be rehabilitated back into the wild. Contribute now: http://careforwild.co.za/

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Richemont cuts send shockwaves from Geneva to mountain valleys

2016-12-08

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2016-12-08

Exports of Swiss Watches Decline for 16th Month
Richemont’s plan to slash 210 watchmaking jobs in Switzerland is sending shockwaves from Geneva to some of the country’s remote mountain villages, the cradle of high-end watch manufacturing. In Le Sentier, a town perched in the middle of the Jura mountain range, straddling the border between France and Switzerland, some 400 people protested Thursday against plans to cut the workforce of Vacheron Constantin and Piaget.

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An Out of the Ordinary gift this festive season

2016-12-08

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Give the gift of a lifetime and give an orphaned rhino the chance to survive by donating to Care for Wild Africa today: http://invest.ec/2gBWfhn

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Over 4,000 studios for rent. Standing room only. Telephone included.

2016-12-07

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2016-12-07

Swiss phone box
The contractural requirement for Swisscom to provide every commune with a telephone box comes to an end at the end of next year. Late last week, the Federal Council adopted a new plan that will come into force in 2018. Internet subscriptions without a fixed phone contract should also be part of the new plan.

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Saving documents in digital form for the future

2016-12-04

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The Swiss National Library as been asking global experts how to preserve knowledge in digital form for the long term. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — 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 events. For more articles, interviews and videos …

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Sunrise beats Swisscom on mobile network coverage

2016-12-03

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2016-12-03

Sunrise Network Performance
After seven years on top, Swisscom has been beaten by Sunrise. The German telecommunications expert and magazine publisher, connect.de and its partner P3, travelled roughly 7,000 km by car around Switzerland testing Swiss mobile networks. Tests were also made while walking and on trains. The results were published on Tuesday.

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Swiss stock market awaits result of Italian referendum

2016-12-02

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2016-12-02

SMI vs. MSCI World Week, December 02
Investors appear to be staying on the sidelines this week ahead of the weekend’s Italian referendum. Swiss stocks are set to finish the week lower, underperforming global equities as food giant Nestle and pharmaceutical heavyweights Roche and Novartis drag the index down. It’s been a volatile trading week across financial markets. Oil prices jumped almost 9% on Wednesday after OPEC members finally agreed a deal to cut production while upbeat US...

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Börsen-Talk vom 2. Dezember 2016

2016-12-02

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Mit der Credit Suisse setzt Urs Beck auf eine umstrittene Aktie. Im Börsen-Talk nennt der Fondsmanager von EFG Asset Management weitere Titel mit Potenzial und sagt, warum eine SMI-Jahresend-Rallye kaum möglich ist.

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New lease of life for historic radio transmitter

2016-12-01

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Many older Swiss still remember the Beromünster national transmitter from the golden days of radio. Those days are gone, but the iconic structure is experiencing a new lease of life. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Of the two transmitters above Beromünster in canton Lucerne, only one remains today and is under cultural heritage protection. The 220 metre steel tower …

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The US military plane crash that led to better rescues

2016-12-01

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In November 1946 an American military airplane made an emergency landing on the Gauli glacier in the Bernese Alps. All 12 people on board were rescued in a spectacular mission that marked the birth of the Swiss air rescue service REGA. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) On its way from Munich to Marseille a Douglas DC-3 Dakota US military …

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Terminating a nuclear power plant

2016-12-01

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This is how the Mühleberg nuclear power station near Bern will be taken off the grid in 2019. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — 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 events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch …

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