Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News

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Pandemic takes a heavy toll on consumer confidence 

2020-04-17

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2020-04-17

Switzerland’s consumer confidence index plummeted to a “historically low” level in April, according to a Wednesday statement from the Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The index fell to -40 points, compared to -9 points in January, when the previous survey was conducted. That marks the lowest results since the early 1990s.

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Covid-19 therapy could come by end of year, vaccine in 2021

2020-04-16

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2020-04-16

Swiss pharma and business insiders predict that an effective drug therapy against Covid-19 will be available by the end of this year, but a vaccine might take a year longer than that. “In the best-case scenario, a drug could be available before the end of 2020,” said on Monday Francesco De Rubertis, director and co-founder of Medicxi, a Geneva-based venture capital company that invests in biotechnology.

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Ranking finds Swiss cities less expensive

2020-04-15

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2020-04-15

Zurich and Geneva are still among the world’s ten most expensive cities, but both have slid down the rankings since last year. The full effect of the coronavirus crisis remains to be seen. In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual report comparing the cost of living in cities around the world, Zurich is tied for 5th place with Paris; in 2019 it ranked 4th.

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Login mit der Access Card Display mit Bluetooth

2020-04-14

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Kurzes Tutorial Video, welches Schritt für Schritt erklärt, wie man sich per Bluetooth mit der Access Card Display mit Bluetooth einloggt.

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Login mit der Access Card Display mit Bluetooth

2020-04-14

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Kurzes Tutorial Video, welches Schritt für Schritt erklärt, wie man sich per Bluetooth mit der Access Card Display mit Bluetooth einloggt.

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One fifth of pupils ‘falling though remote learning net’

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

There is a big difference in the amount of time pupils are spending at their studies during the corona school closures, a Swiss-led study has found. Some children are doing five or more hours a day, others just one or two.

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Coronavirus: Switzerland extends lockdown until 26 April

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

On 8 April 2020, Switzerland’s government decided to extend the country’s lockdown measures for a further week. In a press release the Federal Council said the measures would be extended for another week and then possibly progressively loosened before the end of April.

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Cradle of agriculture in the Amazon region much older

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

People began growing manioc and squash much earlier than previously thought, a team of researchers led by the Swiss university of Bern has found. A study shows that the earliest human inhabitants of Moxos plains began transforming the tropical savanna eco-region in Bolivia 10,000 years ago, that is 8,000 earlier than previously thought.

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Insanity: As The US Enters A Depression, Stocks Are Now The Most Overvalued Ever

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

S&P 500 NTM, January-March 2020
Two days ago, when a platoon of clueless CNBC hacks said that stocks were extremely undervalued, and must be bought (on their fundamentals, not because the Fed was about to nationalize the entire bond market and is set to start buying equity ETFs in the next crash), we showed just how "undervalued" the market was.

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New debt relief measures on the horizon for struggling firms

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

The Swiss government is examining plans to stave off bankruptcies of companies struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis. But regular debt collection procedures will resume on April 20. Justice Minster Karin Keller-Sutter said the aim was to stabilise the economy and to secure jobs.

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Coronavirus: new infections slowing in Switzerland

2020-04-11

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2020-04-11

The number of new recorded Covid-19 cases is slowing in Switzerland. By 8 April 2020 the total number of recorded cases was 23,574 according to Switzerland’s health authority.

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Swiss banks bow to pressure to delay half of dividend payments

2020-04-11

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2020-04-11

Switzerland’s two largest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, have asked shareholders to accept a delay of several months for half of their dividend payments this year. The move follows a request from the financial regulator to hold on to more cash during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Swiss economy could lose up to CHF35 billion to pandemic

2020-04-10

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2020-04-10

Coronavirus will cost the Swiss economy CHF22 billion ($22.7 billion) in lost productivity in the best-case scenario, economists have warned. Losses could easily mount up to CHF35 billion between March and June. A nationwide lockdown of non-essential high street shops and services has been accompanied by partial closures of industrial plants in some cantons.

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Login con l’Access Card Bluetooth

2020-04-09

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Breve video tutorial che spiega passo dopo passo come effettuare il login tramite Bluetooth con l’Access Card Display con Bluetooth.

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Access App – Problemi con la scansione del codice QR

2020-04-09

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Breve video tutorial che mostra i passaggi da seguire per risolvere il problema se non si riesce a scansionare il codice QR durante il login.

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Access App – Probleme beim Scannen des QR Codes

2020-04-09

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Kurzes Tutorial Video, welches einem die Lösungsschritte aufzeigt, welche man anwenden soll, wenn man beim Login den QR-Code nicht scannen kann.

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Access App – Problems scanning the QR code

2020-04-09

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Short tutorial video, which shows you the solution steps, which you should follow, if you cannot scan the QR Code when logging in.

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Login con l’Access Card Bluetooth

2020-04-09

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Breve video tutorial che spiega passo dopo passo come effettuare il login tramite Bluetooth con l’Access Card Display con Bluetooth.

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Log in with Access Card Bluetooth

2020-04-09

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Short tutorial video that explains step by step how to log in via Bluetooth using the Access Card Display with Bluetooth

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Connexion avec l’Access Card Bluetooth

2020-04-09

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Court tutoriel vidéo expliquant étape par étape comment se connecter à l’Access Card Display via Bluetooth.

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