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Shanghai swimming World Cup doping tests negative

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:03:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The 362 doping tests run for the July 2011 swimming World Cup in Shanghai have all come back negative, FINA (world swimming federation) announced 22 August from its head office in Lausanne. The tests included 311 urine samples and 51 blood tests.

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Higgs Boson hopes fading, says Cern

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:20:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The elusive Higgs-Boson particle is proving to be ghost-like, says Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Results from Cern’s Atlas and CMS projects were presented at the biannual Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India 22 August. Results of these collaborative projects using the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) “show that the [...]

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PostFinance gains new home-base customers as Swiss big banks struggle

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:37:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – PostFinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, continues to pull in new customers as the country’s two large banks cope with the fallout from legal problems with the US and a strong franc that is hurting their revenues. PostFinance Wednesday 27 July announced that it acquired 43,000 new customers in the first [...]

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Swiss int’l students under pressure from record A-levels in England

Nicholas Bates — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:16:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com London, England (GenevaLunch) - There is enormous pressure on British university places for autumn 2010, with an estimated shortfall of 170,000 places. The results will add to pressures on students from the international schools in Switzerland, who generally take the International Baccalaureate rather the A levels, as fewer places will be available for those who [...]

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Swiss flies in the black again with CHF61m profits

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:20:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Swiss is flying high again, with CHF61 million in profits for the first six months of 2010, after a dismal start to the year thanks to the Icelandic volcano that forced planes to stay on the ground. Profits were down compared to the first six months of 2009 (CHF65m), but the [...]

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Nigerian asylum seeker in Zurich had heart problem

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:08:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Autopsy results published by canton Zurich Monday morning 28 June show that a 29-year-old Nigerian who died at Zurich Airport 17 March was suffering from an undiagnosed heart ailment, and his death was due to a heart attack. He died shortly before he was to board a plane to be returned [...]

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Swisscom report comes on heels of anti-competition fine

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swisscom, Switzerland’s dominant telecommunications company, posted revenues of CHF8.92 billion Wednesday 11 November, a figure 1.8 percent below that for the same period a year earlier. Net income rose, however, by 16.6 percent to CHF1.31b, “on a par with the previous year”, says the company. The results were published just days [...]

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Edipresse, main Geneva area publisher, moves into the red

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:56:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Edipresse, whose Swiss operations are scheduled to be sold to Tamedia in Zurich in 2010 if the deal is approved by the federal government, has posted a loss of CHF8.9 million for the first half of 2009, citing the continuing overall weak economy and lower advertising revenue. The company notes that [...]

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Swatch shares jump: profits slip but recovery in wings

Sean Ecker — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:26:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 15 August 08:10 Bienne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swatch group, the world’s largest maker of watches, posted profits of CHF301 million for the first half of 2009, 28 percent down compared to the same period last year, which was a record year. By late Friday 14 August when the market closed in Zurich the company’s [...]

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Gold boosts Swiss National Bank half-year results, UBS bailout no impact

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:15:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com (correction: price of gold) Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss National Bank has posted a positive half-year result of CHF5 billion before provisions, compared to a loss of CHF3.4b a year earlier. The SNB ended 2008 with a loss of CHF4.3b. The central bank’s legal obligations require it to set aside provisions that allow it [...]

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