ABB names replacement for departing CEO
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 23:58:26 -0700 | business-news
ABB has chosen Ulrich Spiesshofer , the head of its automation and motion division, as new chief executive after the surprise resignation of Joe Hogan for personal reasons last month. Spiesshofer will take over as CEO of the world's biggest...
Ultra-easy money experiment impedes reform
Source: Japan Times
Basel :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 09:22:51 -0700 | business-news
The world's central banks are engaged in one of the great policy experiments in modern history: ultra-easy money. And, as the experiment has continued, the risk of failure and thus of the wrenching corrections and deep economic dislocations that would...
Swiss committee says parliament should ditch debate on U.S. tax deal
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-13 15:21:24 -0700 | business-news
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (R) talks to Councillor of State Primin Bischof during a debate on the tax agreement between Switzerland and the U.S. A Swiss parliamentary committee said on Thursday that lower house lawmakers should decline to debate...
Westhill Consulting - Mass internet surveillance whistleblower goes public
Posted by: nathalieflex
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 16:03:27 -0700 | business-news
Existence of PRISM confirmed. The United States bulk surveillance scandal is continuing unabated with further revelations about the NSA PRISM programme and the person who leaked information about it. Speaking to the Guardian, which first broke the news about the...
Offshore tax strategies may have fewer individual takers
Source: Sun Sentinel
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 17:17:06 -0700 | business-news
Miller says he used to field lots of calls from rich doctors and business owners who wanted to know how to fend off taxes and protect their assets from creditors by placing at least some of their money in an...
Severn Trent expiry a blow for merger-arbitrage funds
Source: The Globe & Mail
Zug :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 12:45:00 -0700 | business-news
Story The logo of Glencore is seen in front of the company's headquarters in the Swiss town of Zug. Mining That sent Severn Trent shares down 8.3 per cent on Wednesday, adding to falls on Monday and leaving it below...
Swiss Tax Deal Clears Hurdle in Upper House
Source: International Herald Tribune
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 16:40:36 -0700 | business-news
Swiss lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to consider a bill that would let the country's banks sidestep strict secrecy laws to end a long-running United States tax probe, rejecting calls for the legislation to be killed. Five months after U.S. action...
Princely Liechtenstein bank keen for clarity on tax
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 03:29:12 -0700 | business-news
LGT Group CEO Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein attends the annual news conference on the 2007 results in Zurich March 4, 2008. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein , chief executive of Liechtenstein's biggest bank LGT , said it...
Philip Morris International (PMI) Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $0.85 Per Share
Source: The Motley Fool
Lausanne :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 00:50:21 -0700 | business-news
is the leading international tobacco company, with seven of the world's top 15 international brands, including Marlboro , the number one cigarette brand worldwide...In 2012, the company held an estimated 16.3% share of the total international cigarette market outside of...
Gold has a firm demand in a fluctuating market
Source: The Hindu
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-11 22:53:14 -0700 | business-news
Yellow metal always attracts customers for its ornamental value and as an investment option At 10 in the morning, the row of jewellery shops on South Avani Moola Street is already seeing the first customers. During the next one hour,...
Business leaders warn of economic collapse over political impasse
Source: The Daily Star
Biel :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-11 19:56:45 -0700 | business-news
Leading business leaders warned Tuesday of total economic and financial collapse in Lebanon if the tense political and security situation did not come to a quick end...We came here to tell the political forces stop squandering the basic elements of...
AGT International Appoints Rani Karmi to Chief Business Officer
Source: PR Newswire
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-11 00:09:25 -0700 | business-news
He will be based in and responsible for driving AGT International's growth in the global market and in the field of security. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/201208
AGT International nomme Rani Karmi au poste de directeur commercial
Source: PR Newswire
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-11 00:09:25 -0700 | business-news
Riche de son experience dans ce secteur, le dirigeant rejoint l'equipe de direction internationale d'AGT pour stimuler la croissance de la societe au sein de nouveaux marches Rani Karmi rejoint AGT International, l'un des fournisseurs de solutions de surete et...
Geneva schools consider increase in education fund spending
Source: The Daily Herald
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-10 22:34:33 -0700 | business-news
Board member Bill Wilson, however, has asked the assistant superintendent for business services to consider a few trims, to meet a goal of keeping the increase at 2 percent or less. "I'm just trying to see where we can help...
Even Smart Incentives Can Completely Demoralize People
Source: BusinessInsider
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-10 10:24:39 -0700 | business-news
In the early 1990s, Switzerland was getting ready to have a national referendum about where it would site nuclear waste dumps. Citizens had strong views on the issue and were well informed. Bruno Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee, two social scientists,...
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