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Over 200 Swiss firms sign up to CO2 reduction targets

2025-03-15

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2025-03-15

The SBTi is a global corporate climate-action organisation that is supported by business associations, environmental organisations and the United Nations. Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article...

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Swiss e-commerce sales reached CHF15 billion 2024

2025-03-13

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2025-03-13

Nearly CHF 15 billion generated by e-commerce in 2024 Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland

2025-03-12

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2025-03-12

These cocoa-free products, designed to replicate the taste and texture of traditional chocolate, address two major challenges: soaring cocoa prices and the environmental concerns associated with cocoa farming. Keystone / Christian Beutler Listen to...

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Landlocked Switzerland becomes world’s largest container ship nation

2025-03-11

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2025-03-11

Switzerland now the largest container shipping nation in the world Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Swiss customs intercepted over 200 tonnes of smuggled meat in 2024

2025-03-11

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2025-03-11

Swiss customs investigates over 200 tons of smuggled meat Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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CFNAI Index Suggests Economy Is Slowing

2025-03-01

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2025-03-01

Inside This Week's Bull Bear Report February Weakness And The Outlook For March Last week, we discussed that continued bullish exuberance and high levels of complacency can quickly turn into volatility. Over the previous week, the market fell sharply following news of a potential viral outbreak in China and more concerns about tariffs from the …

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Jean-Baptiste Say: Neglected Champion of Laissez-Faire

2025-02-28

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2025-02-28

Beyond some rudimentary facts, very little is available in English about the life of J.B. Say.  He was born in Lyons, France, to middle-class Huguenot parents, and spent most of his early years in Geneva and London. As a young man, he returned to France in the employ of a life insurance company, and soon became an influential member of a group of strongly pro-free- market intellectuals.  Indeed, Say was the first editor of La Decade Philosophique ,...

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Retail Investors Are Suddenly Bearish

2025-02-28

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2025-02-28

The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment indicator claims that 60.6% of the retail investors are bearish. The percentage of bears in its survey increased sharply from 40.5% at the prior reading on February 19. The AAII retail investor survey is now the most bearish it has been since September 2022. More stunning, this …

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Mr. Stiglitz, Is Hayek in the Room with Us?

2025-02-26

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2025-02-26

Daniel Dennett, the renowned philosopher of science, proposed four steps for critiquing an intellectual opponent: First, one should attempt to re-express the opponent’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that the opponent would say, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.” Second, one should list any points of agreement, particularly those that are not widely acknowledged. Third, one should highlight anything learned from the...

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Swiss Säntis mountain cable car set for gust resistant refit

2025-02-25

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2025-02-25

Säntis cable car will be completely renovated Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Audit slams Swiss military contractor for suspected fraud

2025-02-25

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2025-02-25

Fraud or mistrust: Ruag is once again under fire for its management Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Are Western countries doing enough to tackle waste trafficking?

2025-02-25

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2025-02-25

In 2021, the main destinations for illicit waste from Switzerland were Western Europe (likely because of Schengen rules that abolished border controls, said criminologist Serena Favarin), Eastern Europe and Africa. About a third of illicit shipments are returned to Switzerland, according to the federal environment office. Keystone...

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From the Editor—January / February 2025

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

On the night of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, American insurrectionists donned disguises and destroyed a shipment of tea imported by the East India Company. The protestors boarded privately owned ships in the harbor and threw the tea overboard. Later that night, the activists discovered another tea shipment that had been unloaded at a warehouse. Not content with having destroyed most of the company’s import, they broke into the warehouse and...

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Swiss stock market sets a new benchmark above 13,000 points

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

The day after the German elections, the flagship Swiss index quickly slipped into the red before recovering to break through the 13,000-point barrier for the first time. Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article...

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Proportion of women managers in Switzerland up slightly in ten years

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

The cantons of Aargau and Basel-Country have the highest proportion of female managers, says the study. Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Employment in Switzerland up slightly at end of 2024

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

For the period under review, Swiss companies accounted for a total of 5.5 million jobs, 48,300 more (+0.9%) than a year earlier. Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle...

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UBS vs the Swiss regulation drive

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her colleagues at the Swiss National Bank and financial watchdog FINMA are of a very different mind to the deregulating Donald Trump. Keystone / Peter Schneider Listen to the article Listening the article...

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The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 1, 2025

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

On the night of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, American insurrectionists donned disguises and destroyed a shipment of tea imported by the East India Company. The protestors boarded privately owned ships in the harbor and threw the tea overboard. Later that night, the activists discovered another tea shipment that had been unloaded at a warehouse. Not content with having destroyed most of the company’s import, they broke into the warehouse and...

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Fewer mergers and acquisitions among Swiss SMEs

2025-02-22

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2025-02-22

SMEs have less desire to tie the knot, mergers are down Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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‘Children should learn how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, not just maths and geography’

2025-02-22

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2025-02-22

Peter Ohnemus is the founder, president and CEO of dacadoo, a digital health engagement platform. Vera Leysinger / SWI swissinfo.ch Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language...

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