19 August 2016 – Swiss and global market roundup. Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. The Swiss Market Index is set to close lower this week underperforming global equities as US stocks reached new record highs and emerging markets outperformed on a weaker dollar. The week began with some gloomy economic data after reports showed on […]
Archives for August 2016
No Swiss city makes the top 10 of the EIU’s liveability ranking
For six years in a row Melbourne, Australia remains the most liveable of the 140 cities surveyed, followed very closely by Vienna. This year’s top ten, scored from 97.5 to 95.0, a score range that included both Zurich and Geneva in 2015. Top ten EIU Liveability Rankings 2016 1. Melbourne, Australia (97.5) 2. Vienna, Austria […]
Film: an orphan girl who teams up with a blind musician
19 August 2016. BLANKA ***1/2 (vo Tagalog) Blanka is a little orphan girl in the slums of Manila who wants more than anything to have a mother. Her own ran off with some man and abandoned her to the streets. She is a sweet girl who only wants love and a home, but ends up stealing […]
Olympic medal rankings adjusted for population – Switzerland gains 8 places
Updated version following the end of the Olympic Games. It is no surprise that the United States and China feature at the top of the 2016 Olympic medal league table. With populations of 324 million and 1.34 billion they have enormous numbers to draw on when searching for athletic talent. Smaller countries like Grenada and […]
Swiss foundation Cartooning for Peace to hold benefit concert in Geneva
Ten years after the creation of the Cartooning for Peace network in New York by Kofi Annan and a dozen international editorial cartoonists, the Cartooning for Peace Swiss Foundation is organising a benefit concert at 20:00 on September 16, in the Victoria Hall in Geneva, in aid of cartoonists threatened all around the world for […]
Swiss wants to add direct flights from London to Sion, near Verbier and Zermatt in Switzerland
24 Heures. According to information in the French language newspaper Le Nouvelliste, Swiss will run a series of test flights between Sion, near the mountain resorts of Crans-Montana, Verbier and Zermatt, to London, next February. Sion, the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais, with a population of around 33,000, lies at the heart of […]
Why Switzerland’s franc is still strong in four charts
Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan keeps saying the franc is “significantly overvalued.” And that’s despite the central bank’s record-low deposit rate and occasional currency market interventions. While the franc is typically a top choice for foreign investors looking for a safe place to park their money, anxieties about […]
Taking a cigarette on work time soon to be banned at this Swiss company
Le Matin. A company in the Swiss canton of Valais wants staff to clock out and back in again when they take smoking breaks. Under Swiss law the practice is perfectly legal and an increasing number of firms are implementing it, particularly in secondary industries such as manufacturing. According to Le Matin, Compagnie industrielle de […]
Vevey’s ever-popular street festival starts this Friday
The 24th three-day Vevey festival of street artists, starts Friday 19 August at 4pm, and takes place at seven locations on the cobbled streets of Vevey’s old town, as well as at a new location near the Nest on Chauséee de la Guinguette. The show, a kind of outdoor circus, includes acrobats, football jugglers, mimers and tightrope […]
Two confirmed dead after attack on Swiss train
Le Matin. The 27 year old perpetrator of the train attack near Salez-Sennwald in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, has died from his injuries, according to St. Gallen’s police. Earlier in the day a 34 year old female victim died from injuries resulting from the same attack. Doctors reported that two of the remaining […]