GenevaLunch » growth http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no China: Cautious growth and greater role of renminbi expectedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/china-cautious-growth-and-greater-role-of-renminbi-expected/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/china-cautious-growth-and-greater-role-of-renminbi-expected/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:33:51 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=69483 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – China’s renminbi, which Beijing has begun cautiously promoting as an internationally accepted trading currency, may surprise us, HSBC’s global head of commodity and structured trade finance told a Financial Times conference in Lausanne Wednesday 25 April. Jean-François Lambert said that ”It’s a huge development and moving faster than many expected, so pay attention”. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/26/china-cautious-growth-and-greater-role-of-renminbi-expected/feed/ 0 General strike against austerity measures hits Portugalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/general-strike-against-austerity-measures-hits-portugal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/general-strike-against-austerity-measures-hits-portugal/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:39:29 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68134 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trains were halted and public transport in Lisbon stopped on Thursday 22 March as Portugal’s largest union vowed to bring the country to a standstill in protest over new labour reforms imposed as part of a €78 billion bail-out package. Arménio Carlos, president of the confederation of unions (CGTP), told the Wall [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/general-strike-against-austerity-measures-hits-portugal/feed/ 0 Geneva’s banking sector slips another small notch in economyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/genevas-banking-sector-slips-another-small-notch-in-economy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/genevas-banking-sector-slips-another-small-notch-in-economy/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:49:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67903 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s financial sector remains a significant part of the canton’s economy, responsible for 20 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), but in 2007 that figure was 25 percent, and 2011 shows new slippage. Ocstat, the canton’s statistical office, Monday 19 March said that while financial business rose by 0.9 percent in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/genevas-banking-sector-slips-another-small-notch-in-economy/feed/ 0 Credit Suisse pushes Swiss GDP forecast down sharplyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/credit-suisse-pushes-swiss-gdp-forecast-down-sharply/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/credit-suisse-pushes-swiss-gdp-forecast-down-sharply/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:11:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63992 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse Thursday pushed its GDP growth forecast down sharply, from 2 percent to 0.5 percent, for 2012. The bank points to the euro crisis, which “continues to weigh on markets, with economic momentum in Europe fading unexpectedly quickly.” Switzerland will be hurt by the fall in exports due to “decidedly gloomier” [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/credit-suisse-pushes-swiss-gdp-forecast-down-sharply/feed/ 0 Swiss-Indian trade shows “fulgarant” growth, says Bernhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/swiss-indian-trade-shows-fulgarant-growth-says-bern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/swiss-indian-trade-shows-fulgarant-growth-says-bern/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:49:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63195 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Trade between India and Switzerland, currently negotiating a bilateral free trade treaty, has grown at a “fulgerant” rate in the past 20 years, the Swiss Customs Office says. Exports from Switzerland to India grew by 18 percent in the first nine months of 2011 and have now crossed the threshold of CHF3 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/swiss-indian-trade-shows-fulgarant-growth-says-bern/feed/ 0 Partial unemployment to get bulk of gov’t CHF870m to fight high franchttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/partial-unemployment-to-get-bulk-of-govt-chf870m-to-fight-high-franc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/partial-unemployment-to-get-bulk-of-govt-chf870m-to-fight-high-franc/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:11:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61699 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The two houses of parliament have given the green light to government measures to fight the high franc, with the lower house Wednesday approving the Federal Council’s CHF870 million project. The bulk of the funds will go to help companies cover the cost of partial unemployment that is likely to rise as [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/partial-unemployment-to-get-bulk-of-govt-chf870m-to-fight-high-franc/feed/ 0 Swiss green economy growing twice as fast as resthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/21/swiss-green-economy-growing-twice-as-fast-as-rest/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/21/swiss-green-economy-growing-twice-as-fast-as-rest/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:22:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59054 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The green economy is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy in Switzerland, figures published Tuesday 21 June by WWF Switzerland show. The green economy accounts for turnover of CHF29 billion and 116,000 jobs. It is expected to add another 53,000 jobs by 2020, with turnover reaching CHF57b. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/21/swiss-green-economy-growing-twice-as-fast-as-rest/feed/ 0 Swiss PostFinance continues growth, stays cautious on mortgageshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/swiss-postfinance-continues-growth-stays-cautious-on-mortgages/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/swiss-postfinance-continues-growth-stays-cautious-on-mortgages/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 13:50:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57445 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - PostFinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, has attracted 18,000 new clients in the first three months of 2011 and its earnings are up 39 percent over Q1 in 2010, to CHF 181 million, Swiss Post announced 9 May. Customer deposits rose by CHF5.2 billion to CHF89.4 billion. “This increase lead [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/swiss-postfinance-continues-growth-stays-cautious-on-mortgages/feed/ 0 India’s population now 17% of world totalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/01/indias-population-now-17-of-world-total/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/01/indias-population-now-17-of-world-total/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:33:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55990 GenevaLunch.com Female infanticide appears to continue India’s census results were published Thursday 31 March, showing that the country is now the world’s second most populous, with 17 percent of the world population. India officially has 1.21 billion people, compared to China’s 1.34 billion. India added 181 million new people, but the Guardian notes that the census [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/01/indias-population-now-17-of-world-total/feed/ 0 Biggest building boom in 50 yrs boosts UK economyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/23/biggest-building-boom-in-50-yrs-boosts-uk-economy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/23/biggest-building-boom-in-50-yrs-boosts-uk-economy/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:23:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45067 GenevaLunch.com The UK economy picked up in the second quarter of 2010, thanks in large part to the biggest rise in construction in nearly 50 years. New figures published by the Office for National Statistics Friday 23 July show a 1.1 percent GDP increase over the previous quarter, the largest such quarterly rise in four years, [...]

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