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Jobless rate drops with arrival of Spring

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 It is the biggest March decrease in three years, said Seco’s labour division head Serge Gaillard. Just over 166,000 people were registered as unemployed. Most of them are foreigners, a Seco statement said on Thursday. The jobless rate among younger people dropped significantly to 4.8 per cent last month compared with February. Gaillard warned against…

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Solar Impulse completes first flight

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 The Solar Impulse plane landed after one-and-a-half hours in the air near its base, a military airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland. Piccard, who in 1999 co-piloted the first non-stop round-the-globe balloon flight, said the aim of the test flight was to see if the plane, with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the…

Solar Impulse completes first flight

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 The Solar Impulse plane landed after 1.5 hours in the air near its base, a military airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland. Piccard said the aim of the two-hour test flight was to examine if the plane with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the weight of a small car could keep a straight…

Easter is over… but try telling the hens

This content was published on Apr 7, 2010 With Easter over, the appetite for eggs has returned to normal and demand has dwindled – resulting in a surplus. The problem is to some extent solved with the slaughtering of more hens now than is normal. The government has also lent a hand by contributing SFr2 million ($1.87 million) to help bring the market…

Oil and grain keep flowing through Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 6, 2010 Last year, trading in commodities such as oil, grain and electricity contributed around two per cent of the total Swiss economic output – about the same as tourism. But the secretive sector is undergoing changes. Switzerland has long been a global centre in the commodities trading world thanks to its central European location, strong banking…

ICRC triples its budget for Niger and Mali

This content was published on Apr 6, 2010 They are among millions hit by weather conditions and economic hardship. The ICRC is asking donors for an additional SFr23 million ($21.5 million) to bring its aid for the two African countries to SFr36 million for the next eight months. In Niger, the government believes that more than half the population is suffering from moderate…

US sex bias suit against Novartis set to begin

This content was published on Apr 6, 2010 The women, who have worked for the Swiss drug giant across the United States, claim that the company discriminated against them in the areas of pay, promotions, and pregnancy-related matters. The 17 plaintiffs – both current and former employees of Novartis – are representing 5,600 of their colleagues and seeking total damages of $200 million…

Oil prices fuel annual inflation

This content was published on Apr 6, 2010 Figures released on Tuesday for March show an inflation rate of 1.4 per cent, the highest since November 2008. In February 2010, it stood at 0.9 per cent. The Statistics Office reported that prices for domestic goods rose 0.8 per cent on the year, while prices for imported goods went up 2.9 per cent. It…

Banker payout under the spotlight

This content was published on Apr 4, 2010 “Those who made CS so successful can now reap the benefits,” said Oswald Grübel, former chief executive of CS and currently head of the rival UBS bank. Grübel said the bank had introduced the bonus system in 2005 to commit its top managers with a long-term programme of incentives. “This is exactly what the public…

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