Oil extended its recent gains amid concern escalating tensions in the Middle East will trigger more direct US involvement. Asian stocks were mixed before a Federal Reserve monetary policy decision.

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The City of London has had to contend with a lot in recent years, from Brexit to a lack of stock listings. Its latest setback ...

From the end of the year, there will no longer be a daily free newspaper in Switzerland: the TX Group is discontinuing the ...

The landslide in Blatten VS and the resulting floods caused damage totalling CHF 320 million. Around CHF 260 million of this ...

On his first day as chief executive officer, Stefan Bollinger told staff at Julius Baer Group Ltd. that they shouldn’t be ...

The permafrost in the Swiss Alps is thawing faster and faster. The thawed top layers of permafrost have never been as thick ...

The decision is expected to save CHF27 million ($33 million). However, RTS reports that 85% of cross-border pupils are Swiss ...

The Geneva-based bank Pictet has been fined CHF2 million for shortcomings in its organisation which enabled a former asset manager to commit serious money laundering.

At the town of Gbapleu, a rope tied between two metal barrels separates Ivory Coast from Guinea. A thin trickle of traffic ...

Only a handful of cantons are likely to have an online voting system for the next federal elections, according to a survey by ...