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Government rejects demands to reform central bank

This content was published on Dec 21, 2016 The SNB has been no stranger to political criticism in its efforts to keep the franc from appreciating too quickly against other currencies. Its policy of amassing foreign currency reserves and introducing negative interest rates has courted some controversy, not least in parliament. The abandonment of the CHF1.20 peg to the euro in January 2015…