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Booming property market attracts investors

This content was published on Mar 4, 2015 The difference in the rate of return between property investments and other forms of investment is at a record level as a result of the central bank’s negative interest rate policy, say authors of “Property market 2015 – structures and prospects”, published on Wednesday. The flight into property is pushing up prices, thus increasing investment…

Fast and futuristic, but are electric cars for everyone?

This content was published on Mar 4, 2015 Marco Piffaretti started engineering firm Protoscar at the age of 22 to develop technical and design solutions for environmentally-friendly mobility. Between 2009 and 2011, the Ticino company presented three models of the Lampo, an electric sports car that can accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. swissinfo.ch: There’s been talk of electric cars…

15 years needed to dismantle nuclear reactor near Bern

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 The fact that 450 people showed up for the first of three informational events shows “how important it is to maintain contact with the community”, said Suzanne Thoma, CEO of the BKW GroupExternal link, the reactor’s operator and one of Switzerland’s largest energy companies. The process of dismantling and removing the parts of the reactor…

Zurich and Geneva become the world’s dearest cities

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 Officially, Singapore retained the dubious honour of being the world’s priciest city, according to the Worldwide Cost of Living SurveyExternal link, with an index score of 129 (New York is the base at 100). Paris came in second (126), followed by Oslo (124), Zurich (121), Sydney (120), Melbourne (118) and Geneva (116), but the survey…

Light photographed as simultaneous wave and particle

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 For the first time Switzerland-based researchers have managed to document light behaving as a particle and a wave simultaneously.

HSBC ‘not representative’ of Swiss banking

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 The unsavoury activities of HSBC, UBS and others, brought into the public domain by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, were the exception rather than the rule, the Swiss banking lobby group insists. After a series of reforms which are still ongoing, the Swiss financial sector has already evolved beyond recognition from the days of…

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A Swiss model for the City?

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 At present, UK-based financial services providers are members of up to 50 different organisations, pay ‘x’ number of different membership fees and make employees available for participation in task forces, consultations and discussions on all kinds issues. The result is duplication of effort, unbelievably high costs, decision-making becomes inefficient and for the unlucky politician, they…

Bern and Canberra work towards tax agreement

This content was published on Mar 3, 2015 The two countries intend to start collecting data in 2017 and first transmit data in 2018, after the necessary legal basis has been created in both countries, the finance ministry said in a statement. The joint declaration, signed in Canberra on Tuesday by ambassador Marcel Stutz and Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, aims to prevent cross-border…

‘High price island’ tag under attack

This content was published on Mar 2, 2015 Consumer groups and business lobbyists are pressing for state intervention to reduce prices in Switzerland.

Testing physical limits

This content was published on Feb 28, 2015 Extremes in movement: from yoga on board the Solar Impulse to ballerina hopefuls.

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