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Federal accounts show healthy surplus

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007 The result, which comes after five years in the red, will help reduce the total debt of the confederation from SFr130 billion to SFr125 billion. Presenting the 2006 accounts on Tuesday, the finance ministry said that the total surplus would be SFr5.7 billion, if the revenue from the sale of shares in telecoms operator Swisscom…

Corti blames banks for “strangling” Swissair

This content was published on Jan 30, 2007 Corti, who was chief executive of the SAirGroup – the carrier’s parent group – during its last months of existence in 2001, told a Zurich court that the company had been “strangled”. The former CEO is one of 19 top executives and board members facing charges that include damaging creditors, mismanagement, making false statements about…

Boy racers

This content was published on Jan 29, 2007

Zurich prospers as foreign firms relocate

This content was published on Jan 28, 2007 The moves earlier this month from the two United States giants offer further evidence that the region offers prime conditions for companies, according to the Greater Zurich Area relocation service. Google, the world’s leading website search engine, will radically expand its existing business in Zurich by moving to larger premises at the Hürlimann industrial complex…

Free trade agreement with Egypt signed

This content was published on Jan 27, 2007 An economics ministry statement, issued on Saturday, also announced that Efta ministers had met the Indonesian trade minister with a view to concluding a similar accord. Swiss Economics Minister Doris Leuthard, and the other European Free Trade Association (Efta) ministers from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, signed the agreement with Egypt on the sidelines of the…

Davos world trade meeting makes progress

This content was published on Jan 27, 2007 A statement from the Swiss Economics Ministry on Saturday said that the around 30 participants had clearly expressed a renewed commitment to put the stalled talks back on track. But observers said the outcome was a disappointment after business and political leaders had earlier called for firm progress in the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations.…

The company that makes its money out of dough

This content was published on Jan 26, 2007 The company, based in the town of Burgdorf, north of Bern, sells its products around the world to customers ranging from corner shops to multinationals. The custom-made machines come in all shapes and sizes and are designed to make a baker’s life easier. “Our machines are used to transform a mixed dough into normally a…

National bank profit more than halves

This content was published on Jan 26, 2007 As stipulated in a 2002 agreement between the government and the SNB, the profit to be distributed to the government and the cantons amounts to SFr2.5 billion. The increase in the gold price, as in 2005, had a major impact on the SNB’s 2006 annual result. Almost a third of the SNB’s assets are held…

Swiss work on improving US economic relations

This content was published on Jan 26, 2007 Although both countries have decided not to proceed with a free-trade agreement, Leuthard told swissinfo that the joint forum enabled constructive discussions. A year after the idea of an accord was dumped because of disagreements over terms of negotiation, the economics minister met US Trade Representative Susan Schwab at the World Economic Forum summit in…

Bruggisser attacks prosecution in Swissair case

This content was published on Jan 25, 2007 Bruggisser, who ran the defunct airline group from 1996 and was fired early in 2001, said the prosecution’s financial experts had drawn “absurd” conclusions about the merger of a subsidiary with the carrier. “I am not guilty of what I have been accused of,” said the former CEO, one of 19 top executives and board…

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