After improving its profitability in the first half, the Fribourg-based group is attracting renewed stock-market interest.

Experts defend passive investing’s role in market equilibrium. Active strategies nevertheless remain necessary for the stock ...

The SNB has acknowledged that the franc has become less attractive because of interest rate differentials. It can no longer shield Switzerland from imported inflation.

The AfD and Die Linke’s surge notably reveals the appeal of statism in the face of policies deemed unconvincing. Switzerland ...

We are not, however, on the eve of a bubble bursting. Unlike Cisco in the 2000s, these companies generate immense profits and ...

ANALYSIS. The Yverdon-based company has had to file applications to open insolvency proceedings for its German subsidiaries, even as demand for batteries grows strongly.

COMMENTARY. Sergio Ermotti’s public campaign has put UBS’s lobbying in the spotlight. It highlights the value of business voices in political debate, without guaranteeing lawmakers’ support.

Convened by the Geneva Investment Strategists Association, Valentin Bissat (Mirabaud), Julien Descombes (CA Indosuez) and ...

The chairman reiterated his commitment to keeping the bank’s headquarters in Switzerland, unless future capital requirements ...

ANALYSIS. Since their inclusion in the blue-chip index was announced, Galderma and Sandoz have underperformed Swisscom and ...

COMMENTARY. The millions pledged to agriculture unlocked the Mercosur agreement in Parliament. But this method risks ...

Faced with persistent inflation, the Fed chair had no choice but to do what the markets expected of him, to the dismay of the ...