Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News
Addax Petroleum to close operations in Geneva
Chinese-owned oil and gas extractor firm Addax Petroleum is shutting its offices in the Swiss city of Geneva as well as in Aberdeen, Scotland and Houston in the United States. The company on Monday confirmed a report by the Tribune de Genève newspaper, saying its parent firm Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (SIPC) would integrate the three offices into a new technical centre in Beijing by the end of this year.
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Stuart Broad introduces the first Day/Night Investec Test Match
Investec ambassador Stuart Broad talks us through the first ever Day/Night Investec Test Match, taking place from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 August at Edgbaston. England will face a determined West Indies side in the first Test of the Investec Series.
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Finding smuggled goods on cross-border coaches
The holiday period is a busy time for customs officers. People travelling by coach may have to face delays as the Swiss border guards don’t always wave the vehicles through, but conduct meticulous searches instead. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland …
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Switzerland: Number of ‘near miss’ plane incidents double
Switzerland’s transport safety authority reports an increase in serious violations of air safety regulations that could have potentially led to collisions. According the 2016 annual report of the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board released end of July, the number of aviation incidents are on the decrease (1,219 in 2016 vs 1,260 in 2015).
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Aldi Switzerland stops selling eggs as insecticide scandal widens
The discount supermarket chain Aldi Switzerland is withdrawing all imported eggs from sale at its 190 stores as a precaution, it said on Friday, as a scare over possible insecticide contamination spreads. Swiss eggs are not affected, officials say.
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Dying men generate higher health costs
Both gender and location influence the cost of end-of-life healthcare in Switzerland, finds a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In their analysis of 113,277 people who died between 2008 and 2010, researchers studied regional variations in cost of care during the last 12 months of life in Switzerland. Per person, the mean cost of care during that final year was CHF32,500 ($33,540).
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Median Swiss salaries by occupation, region, gender and immigration status
If you have ever wondered how much employees in Switzerland get paid you can check with the online tool Salarium, created by the Swiss government. The information is compiled from a database of numbers from a salary survey done in 2014.
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Wood food – a new eating trend
Do beech sawdust and wood shavings belong in a tasty dish? Many Swiss think so. (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 or subscribe to …
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Gotthard Rail Tunnel Boosts North-South Traffic by a Third
About 2.3 million rail passengers have travelled through the new transalpine tunnel in Switzerland over the past eight months, an increase of 30% compared with same period a year ago. On average, 10,400 people cross the Gotthard base tunnel in central Switzerland every day, according to the Federal Railways.
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Swiss banks defy Brexit to recruit in London
At the same time as big global banks are considering alternatives to London in the wake of the Brexit vote, Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reports, financial institutions are also recruiting new staff in the City. Rather than in commercial banking, however, these employees specialise in private wealth management.
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Popularity of diesel becoming exhausted
Last June in Munich, Greenpeace symbolically showcased a diesel engine in a coffin. After decades of rapid growth, the popularity of diesel vehicles in Switzerland is on the wane following scandals and concerns about environmental impact.
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The Changing International linkages of Switzerland: An Overview
Being a small open economy Switzerland is highly exposed to the girations of the world economy, both through international trade and financial flows. The country’s trade surplus for instance accounted for nearly half the GDP growth between 2000 and 2007.2 While the growth contribution from trade has slowed during the global crisis, the linkages with the world economy remain important for Switzerland.
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Börsen-Talk vom 4. August 2017
Die Börse braucht gemäss Daniel Egger dringend eine Korrektur. Ausserdem zieht der Anlagechef von Maerki Baumann & Co. ein Zwischenfazit aus der Zahlensaison und sagt, weshalb er von der CS derzeit angetan ist.
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Winning: U.S. Crushes All Other Countries In Latest Obesity Study
When President Trump promised last fall that under a Trump administration America would "would win so much you'll get tired of winning," we suspect this is not what he had in mind. According to the latest international obesity study from the Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), America is by far the fattest nation in the world with just over 38% of the adult population considered 'obese.'
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Behind the scenes at the Investec Internationals 2017
In June 2017 The England Hockey team took on the Netherland and Argentina at Lee Valley as part of The Investec Internationals. In this video we hear from Investec ambassador Alex Danson about the future of hockey in England and the current England team.
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