(Bloomberg) — Switzerland’s efforts to forge a new deal to govern relations with the European Union have run into substantial new opposition, in the form of the three billionaire founders of Partners Group Holding AG. Alfred Gantner, Marcel Erni and Urs Wietlisbach, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. alumni who’ve built one of Europe’s most valuable private...
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Switzerland, Italy to redraw borders because of glacier melt – UPI.com
View from valley station Testa Grigia towards Klein Matterhorn onto the new gondola before the official opening of the new Matterhorn Glacier Ride II on June 30, 2023. Glacier melt in the same area has forced Switzerland and Italy to redraw their border. File Photo by Dominic Steinmann/EPA-EFE Sept. 30 (UPI) — Switzerland and Italy...
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Melting Alps Glacier Means Switzerland and Italy’s Border Has to Move
(Bloomberg) — Switzerland and Italy tweaked their mountain border under the Matterhorn peak as climate change in the Alps is melting the glaciers that have historically marked the frontier between the two countries. “Significant sections of the border are defined by the watershed or the ridge lines of glaciers, firn or perpetual snow,” the Swiss...
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Swiss Government Sees Sharp Drop in Inflation Rate Next Year
(Bloomberg) — Switzerland’s government slashed its inflation forecasts, a move in line with expectations that the central bank will cut interest rates again when officials meet next week. Consumer prices will grow at an annual 1.2% in 2024 and 0.7% in the following year, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said on Thursday. That’s down...
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New Report Ranks The Best Countries For Quality Of Life, Business And More
A view of Bern in Switzerland, which was named the world’s best. country in a new report. getty What makes a country truly great? Is it a booming economy, a high standard of living or the ability to inspire adventure and creativity? According to the 2024 Best Countries ranking from U.S. News & World Report,...
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Students who delivered antinuclear message to UN back from Switzerland | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
A group of Japanese senior high school students has returned to Japan from Switzerland after submitting about 96,000 signatures on an antinuclear petition to the UN Office at Geneva. The 22 members of the team from the Youth Communicator for a World without Nuclear Weapons held a briefing in the city of Nagasaki on Saturday,...
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Style Edit: La Prairie’s revolutionary Life Matrix Haute Rejuvenation Cream
It’s really a shift from the more traditional way of doing anti-ageing to something that is more future-oriented. Every client has a different lifestyle, skin conditions, genetic predispositions. I don’t want this old classification just addressing two parameters, oiliness and hydration. It’s really more about the holistic conditions of the skin in terms of health...
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Switzerland Is Getting Squeezed Between China and the US
(Bloomberg) — Back in 2013, several dozen Swiss business representatives traveled to Beijing to attend the signing of a free-trade agreement between Switzerland and China, toasting the success with champagne. Implemented the following year, the FTA was hailed in a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP report at the time as a landmark accord that “recasts the international trade...
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Want to burn through a travel budget? Visit the most expensive city in the world
The index used more than 9.1 million prices provided by almost 809,000 people from 11,761 cities to calculate the average cost for restaurant meals, groceries, childcare, transport, clothes, rent and utilities. A final list of 218 cities is included on the index, with Geneva ranked the most expensive, with a score of 101.7, followed by...
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Hong Kong Tycoon Adrian Cheng to List His Venture Fund in Switzerland
(Bloomberg) — Hong Kong property tycoon Adrian Cheng is listing his venture fund C Capital on the Swiss Stock Exchange through a merger. The company will merge with Swiss-listed investment firm Youngtimers AG and the entity will be renamed C Capital AG upon approval and completion of the transaction, according to a statement Monday. After...
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Switzerland Retains Top Spot In Global Wealth Ranking As World Gets Richer
(MENAFN– Swissinfo) Last year, the global population became wealthier overall. As a result, global wealth rebounded from the decline seen in 2022. Switzerland retained its top position in the UBS Global Wealth Report. This content was published on July 10, 2024 – 15:56 2 minutes Keystone-SDA Deutsch de Weltweite Vermögen wachsen – Schweiz verteidigt Spitzenplatz...
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Lulu Sun: From New Zealand beginnings to tennis stardom
Sun competed in 14 events in 2021, winning an ITF $25,000 tournament in Portugal and reaching another final in Spain to move her ranking inside the top 300, as well as helping her university team claim the NCAA title, their first since 1995. At the 2021 NCAA Championships, Sun clinched the programme’s third team title...