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Swiss economy: Nov. inflation down, retails sales up, unemployment higher

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:18:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND – Swiss prices fell at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in 2011, show figures published Monday 9 January by the Swiss Statistical Office. The November inflation rate was -0.5 percent. Full-year consumer price index figures will be available in a month. Retails sales figures for November 2011 were also published Monday and [...]

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European visitors to Switzerland down in July, but Chinese up 61%

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:27:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – July 2011 was not the disaster for Swiss tourism that some people expected, given the high Swiss franc, but European visitors’ overnight stays were down by 3.5 percent compared to July 2010, with foreigners’ overnight stays down 4 percent. Two of Switzerland’s traditionally largest groups of European visitors, Germans and the British, [...]

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Housing vacancy rate in Switzerland slightly higher

Sean Ecker — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:14:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Vacant housing in Switzerland increased to 36,710 units at 1 June 2010, an increase of 1,950 units compared to last year’s census, reports Swiss Statistics (PDF, Fre) 4 October. Unoccupied dwellings represent less than one percent of the total estimated housing stock, according to the government’s statistical agency. Vacant rental units [...]

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Expanding girls’ horizons: workshops bid to make science sexy

Sean Ecker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:10:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Only 15 percent of women in Switzerland are active in information technology, and only five percent of Swiss engineers are women. This brainpower deficit is addressed in Geneva for the first time by a leading US organization in the field, in a day of workshops in English and French for girls [...]

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Swiss unemployment reaches 4 percent in October, most are happy with benefits

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:28:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss unemployment rose 0.1 percent in October to reach 4 percent, the highest level since 2005, says the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), 6 November. Compared to last October, the number of unemployed people has increased 57 percent and reached 158,138, Seco says. The numbers of people working reduced hours [...]

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Swiss inflation down, consumers more upbeat

Sean Ecker — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:48:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel and Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Inflation in October was 0.6 percent above September’s rate, according to figures released Thursday, 5 November, by Swiss Statistics. The Swiss inflation index stands at 103.7 (100=2005). This is still 0.8 percent below the rate in October 2008. The quarterly consumer confidence survey was more positive than the last [...]

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Slight increase in cost of living in August

Sean Ecker — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:32:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss consumer price index was up slightly by 0.1 percent in August, compared to July, bringing the overall index to 103.1 (100 = December 2005), according to Swiss Statistics. This is still down 0.8 percent year on year, but the decline has slowed from July when the annual decline was [...]

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Swiss survey on working population

Sean Ecker — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:13:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swiss statistics, the Swiss government’s statistical office, conducts a regular survey on the working population in Switzerland which is an important component of the employment situation in Switzerland. The results will now be published on a quarterly basis. One of the aims is to garner information on the effects of the [...]