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Big banks facing regulatory conundrum

This content was published on Feb 15, 2011 The main question for Switzerland’s biggest banks – Credit Suisse and UBS – is how much further will Swiss rules go in comparison to international standards, and how that might affect their ability to compete on a global scale. Credit Suisse intimated last week that it has already reorganised enough to cope with any new…

Chemists get out tubular bells and whistles

This content was published on Feb 14, 2011 But in 2011, International Year of Chemistry, Swiss scientists are briefly putting down their Bunsen burners to celebrate their achievements, explain how interesting and important their subject is to Switzerland – and try to attract some future Nobel Prize winners along the way. If the 20th century belonged to physics – relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear…

Chemical reactions

This content was published on Feb 14, 2011 It all began with the textile industry, which made use of charming products such as sulphuric acid and caustic soda. In Switzerland attention soon turned to dyes, then medicines, herbicides, insecticides and fragrances.

Swiss voters stick to their gun tradition

This content was published on Feb 13, 2011 Just over 56 per cent of voters on Sunday threw out a proposal by an alliance of non-governmental groups and centre-left parties to ban army-issue firearms from the home and set up a central arms register in a bid to curb gun violence.Admitting defeat the supporters of the anti-gun initiative looked on the bright side.…

Swiss push for “blue peace” in Middle East

This content was published on Feb 12, 2011 Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey on Thursday outlined a new initiative in the region that aims to encourage the sustainable cross-border management of scarce water resources. “In the future the main geopolitical resource in the Middle East will be water rather than oil,” she told reporters in Geneva. Calmy Rey presented the new report, entitled…

Flowers use pollen power against greedy bees

This content was published on Feb 11, 2011 This has led a team of ecologists from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) to show – for the first time – that bees need to adapt physiologically to digest different types of pollen. The research has caused quite a buzz – it has been published in the British Ecological Society’s Functional Ecology journal,…

Credit Suisse banks on conservative image

This content was published on Feb 10, 2011 It announced on Thursday that net profits fell by a quarter to SFr5.1 billion ($5.31 billion). The Swiss bank escaped the worst ravages of the financial crisis by spotting the mortgage backed securities bubble before it burst. It now claims to be ahead of the curve with a strategy to cope with the new regulatory…

The World Social Forum in pictures

This content was published on Feb 10, 2011 The World Social Forum has met every year since 2001, as a counter-weight to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Insurer posts fall after floods and quakes

This content was published on Feb 10, 2011 Switzerland’s largest insurer nevertheless said on Thursday that a vote of confidence in the future had raised its dividend to SFr17 a share. “This highly attractive dividend proposal reflects our confidence in the success of Zurich’s business strategy,” Chief Executive Martin Senn said in a statement. Profit in general insurance, Zurich’s biggest segment, was driven…

Credit Suisse turns lower profit for 2010

This content was published on Feb 10, 2011 The 2009 figure of SFr6.7 billion was the third best result in the bank’s history. But 2010 was marked by uncertainties on the financial markets. Although the investment banking sector was able to recover a bit in the fourth quarter, its pre-tax profit for 2010 was SFr3.5 billion, around 48 per cent less than in…

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