GenevaLunch » households 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 Horns of a wood-burning dilemma: forest vs fine particleshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/10/horns-of-a-wood-burning-dilemma-forest-vs-fine-particles/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/10/horns-of-a-wood-burning-dilemma-forest-vs-fine-particles/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:54:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63424 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – More than 15 percent of fine particles, those minuscule bits of dust that are harmful to health, come from wood-burning stoves, the Swiss federal government now says, twice the amount shown by earlier research. Reducing the quantity is a public health priority, with the popularity of  home fireplaces growing, but an changes [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/10/horns-of-a-wood-burning-dilemma-forest-vs-fine-particles/feed/ 0 Swiss consumer confidence down, except about savingshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:14:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63344 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss consumers are gloomy about the economy, with confidence falling over jobs and the economy in general, to -24 from July’s -17. The figures show lower consumer sentiment than in the EU, where surveys registered -20.2 in October, although the cutoff date for surveys, which are done monthly, is slightly earlier than [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/swiss-consumer-confidence-down-except-about-savings/feed/ 0 Household wealth in Switzerland returns to 2007 levelshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/19/household-wealth-in-switzerland-returns-to-2007-levels/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/19/household-wealth-in-switzerland-returns-to-2007-levels/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:16:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=50090 GenevaLunch.com Real estate and recovery in share prices account for improvement Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Per capita net worth for Swiss households rose to about CHF333,000 in 2009, up from CHF316,000. Housing prices and a recovery in share prices have brought Swiss household income back up to the level of 2007, before the 2008 global economic [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/19/household-wealth-in-switzerland-returns-to-2007-levels/feed/ 0 Swiss households poorer by 5.5% – saved by real estatehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/20/swiss-households-poorer-by-5-5-saved-by-real-estate/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/20/swiss-households-poorer-by-5-5-saved-by-real-estate/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31966 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The net worth of Swiss households fell in 2008 from an average of CHF334,000 per capita to CHF312,000. About CHF200,000 of this is real estate and claims against insurance and pension plans. The drop in assets, the first since 2002, was due to sharp falls in stock market values. It would [...]

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