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Sygnum bank creates digital version of Swiss franc for trading

Sygnum bank has launched a digital version of the Swiss franc (DCHF) to allow faster payments when trading a new breed of securities. The DCHF digital tokens will be backed by the corresponding amount of Swiss francs that Sygnum will hold at the Swiss National Bank (SNB).

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FX Daily, March 23: Greenback Demand Not Satisfied by Swap Lines

Overview: In HG Wells' "War of the Worlds," the common cold repelled a Martian invasion. Now, a novel coronavirus is disrupting everything and everywhere. Global equities continue to get hammered, though the apparent relative resilience of Japan may have spurred some buying of Japanese equities.

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Further billions may be needed to save Swiss companies

A CHF42 billion coronavirus financial aid package may not be enough to save firms from extinction, warn business leaders and economists. The state could be saddled with a bill three times higher if the crisis drags on until the end of the year.

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Swiss hospitals take French coronavirus patients

Three Swiss hospitals have agreed to provide intensive care treatment for six seriously ill coronavirus patients from the neighbouring Alsace region of France. However, experts fear that Switzerland’s health infrastructure will soon be stretched by the rising number of pandemic victims.

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The System Will Not Return to “Normal,” and That’s Good; We Can Do Better

Essential home lockdown reading. The pandemic is revealing to all what many of us have known for a long time: the status quo was designed to fail and so its failure was not just predictable but inevitable. We've propped up a dysfunctional, wasteful and unsustainable system by pouring trillions of dollars in borrowed money down a multitude of ratholes to avoid a reckoning and a re-set.

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Drivers for the Week Ahead

Risk sentiment is likely to remain under pressure this week as the impact of the coronavirus continues to spread; demand for dollars remains strong. As of this writing, the Senate-led aid bill has stalled; the US economic outlook is getting more dire; Canada is experiencing similar headwinds. This is a big data week for the UK; eurozone March flash PMIs will be reported Tuesday; oil prices continue to slide.

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COVID-19 – Auslegeordnung

In den vergangenen Tagen habe ich mich immer wieder gefragt, “wo besteht eigentlich das Problem?” Zu oft habe ich das Gefühl, dass viele Experten, Medien und Politiker mit den Zahlen ein Durcheinander haben und so mehr zur Verwirrung als zur Klärung beitragen. Deshalb hier der Versuch einer strukturierten Aufschlüsselung.

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Corona’s Exponential Curve Slope Tracking, March 20

Key for understanding the expansion of the Coronavirus, is the slope (or steepness / derivation) of the curve. This post compares the slope values of different countries.

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Mit Aktien wird man nicht reich und vermögend ??

Ja, richtig gelesen. Mit Aktien wird man nicht reich und vermögend. Was ich damit meine, möchte ich in diesem Beitrag erläutern. Keine Sorge, ich werde weiterhin in Aktien investieren, aber auch meine Motivation für Aktien Investments nochmal genauer erläutern. Wenn Aktien nicht reich machenAktien sind ein Investmentkonstrukt, man investiert sein verdientes Geld in Unternehmen.

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SNB belässt Leitzins unverändert und stärkt die Banken

Die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) belässt ihren Leitzins sowie den Zins auf Sichtguthaben bei -0,75%, wie sie am Donnerstag im Rahmen der geldpolitischen Lagebeurteilung mitteilte. Sie interveniert verstärkt am Devisenmarkt, um zur Stabilisierung der Lage beizutragen.

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Coronavirus: estimating the death toll in Switzerland

COVID-19 has hit the world fast and we are racing to understand it, while struggling to come to terms with its deadly impact. When trying to estimate the impact, it is tempting to take the current number of deaths and divide it by the number of reported cases. However, the resulting percentage is meaningless.

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‘We will come through this together’

The upheaval caused by the coronavirus, Covid-19, is all around us. And I know many are anxious, worried and confused. That’s absolutely natural. We are facing a health threat unlike any other in our lifetimes. Meanwhile, the virus is spreading, the danger is growing, and our health systems, economies and day-to-day lives are being severely tested.

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No, Technology Shocks Aren’t Behind Recurring Business Cycles

Economic fluctuations, also known as business cycles, are seen as being driven by mysterious forces that are difficult to identify. Finn Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (KP), the 2004 Nobel laureates in economics, decided to attempt to find out what these forces were.1 They hypothesized that technology shocks are a major factor behind economic fluctuations and demonstrated that a technology-induced shock can explain 70 percent of the fluctuations in...

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Swiss central bank resists temptation to reduce interest rates

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has kept interest rates unchanged at -0.75% but is easing the burden on commercial banks. The SNB said on Thursday that it is also intervening on the foreign exchange markets to keep the franc from appreciating too far, too fast.

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Shortage of hospital beds in Ticino as virus toll rises

The Swiss health authorities have raised alarm over the limited care facilities in one of its regions hardest hit by the coronavirus epidemic. “The situation in Ticino is dramatic,” said Daniel Koch of the Federal Office of Public Health at a news conference on Thursday.

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Banks lobby regulators to relax post-crisis rules

The global banking industry is demanding regulators relax or delay a raft of post-crisis rules on everything from capital and liquidity to accounting and climate change, which they argue are hampering their ability to respond to the coronavirus crisis.

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Stagnation Never Looked So Good: A Peak Ahead

Forward-looking data is starting to trickle in. Germany has been a main area of interest for us right from the beginning, and by beginning I mean Euro$ #4 rather than just COVID-19. What has happened to the German economy has ended up happening everywhere else, a true bellwether especially manufacturing and industry.

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Auf einmal habe gefühlt alle Investoren ihre Eier verloren? ??

An der Börse wirds heiss und die Panik verbreitet sich, Panikverkäufe sind mittlerweile an der Tagesordnung. Wir können bereits von einem Crash sprechen, ausgelöst vom Coronavirus. Es ist für viele so auch mich der erste Crash den wir aktiv investiert miterleben. Wir müssen diese Situation nutzen um möglichst viel zu lernen. Was ist mit den Investoren los?

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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste – Part I

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” -Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010. Only a couple of weeks ago, if anyone told you that your entire country would be basically shutting down, that events and public gatherings would be outlawed, that you’d be looking at empty shelves in your local supermarket and that the global...

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