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Swiss firms invest US$27bil in US after tariff deal
The investors include Novartis, which has announced two US projects, including a biomedical research centre in San Diego and a cancer-drug production facility in Texas.
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50.3
0 = 부정 우세
50 = 중립
100 = 긍정 우세
최근 7일 기준 87,460건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.3(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,388건(5.0%)·중립 81,024건(92.6%)·부정 2,048건(2.3%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 14.9(중도 균형)입니다.
The investors include Novartis, which has announced two US projects, including a biomedical research centre in San Diego and a cancer-drug production facility in Texas.
The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself? Milo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is a little less buoyant these days. The Swiss theatre-maker has done something he says he explicitly hates: he has cancelled a guest. “Yes, we hit a wall,” he says. “But at least it made the wall visible.” In his capacity as the artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen theatre festival, Rau, at the end of last month, first invited, then disinvited, the American tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The Austrian weekly Falter called it a fiasco. Continue reading...
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Though Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the number one in cross-border wealth management, rather than enter panic mode, Swiss banks seem unruffled — feeling it bolsters the case against looming tighter banking regulations. Hong Kong is now the world’s largest cross-border booking centre thanks to inflows from mainland China, strong initial public offering activity, […]
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Jacques and Jessica Moretti arrived on Friday for questioning by public prosecutors and lawyers for civil parties who were caught in the fire that engulfed Le Constellation bar in Swiss ski resort Crans-Montana ski resort in the early hours of January 1, 2026.
Zelensky’s open letter raises doubts about the sincerity of his intentions, Swiss journalist Guy Mettan said
After serving as a minority partner to Spain’s Lastor Media on the Toronto-winning Spanish pic “They Will Be Dust,” established Swiss banner Alina Film is majority-producing with Lastor the period road movie “The Indies,” (“Les Indes”) which will be sneak-peeked as a work in progress at ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, running June 9-11. […]
The 'Swiss Army Man' producer just couldn't say no to 'The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes,' the genre-bending feature directorial debut of Thanasis Neofotistos, which just premiered at SXSW London.
In Mona’s new permanent installation, visitors can breathe air so pure it ‘has not been touched by any being before you’ More than 2bn years ago, during the Paleoproterozoic era, the Earth’s atmosphere began to fill with free oxygen, enabling the rise of aerobic life and, ultimately, humans. It’s known as the Great Oxidation Event, and deep in the subterranean belly of the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, a new artwork offers visitors the chance to inhale oxygen that’s been trapped in iron ore since then. When French-Swiss conceptual artist Julian Charrière came up with the idea, Mona’s owner David Walsh not only said yes but created a bespoke space for it. Continue reading...
Voormalig BBB-staatssecretaris Gijs Tuinman heeft enkele weken geleden zijn partijlidmaatschap opgezegd. Dat heeft hij in het WNL-televisieprogramma Goedemorgen Nederland bekendgemaakt. Volgens Tuinman heeft de recente leiderschapswissel binnen de partij hem "heel veel pijn gedaan". Henk Vermeer nam recent de leiding van de fractie over van Caroline van der Plas. Tuinman spreekt van een breuk met de koers die de partij eerder uitzette. Tuinman zegt zich te scharen achter Mona Keijzer, die de partij verliet na de machtswisseling. Hij gaf aan regelmatig contact met haar te hebben en haar te steunen. "Ik bel regelmatig met Mona, help haar en denk dat zij de juiste koers heeft." Ook zei hij open te staan voor deelname aan eventuele nieuwe politieke beweging van Keijzer. Vertrek uit BBB Kort na zijn entree in de Tweede Kamer namens BBB werd Tuinman benoemd tot staatssecretaris van Defensie. Politiek gezien zat hij "meer aan de rechtse kant, een beetje VVD-achtig", zei Tuinman vandaag in het WNL-programma. Meerdere BBB'ers hebben de afgelopen tijd de partij verlaten of hun steun uitgesproken voor Mona Keijzer. Zo stapten onder anderen oud-Kamerlid Claudia van Zanten, voormalig bestuurslid Florian Huiskamp en een beleidsmedewerker uit de partij. Eerder uitten ook meerdere prominente partijleden in een brief kritiek op het passeren van Keijzer als partijleider. In de Eerste Kamer zijn inmiddels ook vijf senatoren vertrokken; een deel ging verder als eenpitter of sloot zich bij een andere partij aan.
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto revealed that Switzerland had agreed to provide 3 million ...
The owners of a bar that caught fire during New Year celebrations in a Swiss ski resort, killing 41 people, are set to be questioned once again.
Notaufnahmen quellen über, Ärzte beklagen mangelhaftes Gesundheitswissen. Welche Symptome echte „Red Flags“ sind, mit denen man so schnell wie möglich in die Klinik sollte.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at a press conference after bilateral talks with the Swiss delegation, on Monday, January 15, 2024, — ReutersUkraine urges full ceasefire during peace negotiations.Zelenskiy warns Kyiv remains ready to continue fighting.United States seen...
Mumbai: It is India's fourth biggest company by revenue, but the managing director of precious metals trader Rajesh Exports (REL) apparently doesn't know how and from where it gets the biggest chunk of the revenue, show the findings of a regulatory investigation.In its investigation report, the Securities and Exchange Board of India observed allegedly unscrupulous activities by REL's promoters, such as accounting irregularities and siphoning off of company funds into personal accounts, and also pointed out lapses by its auditors. The regulator said the company and its auditors were non-cooperative."The acts of REL constitute a deliberate device, scheme and artifice to mislead and defraud investors dealing in the shares of REL by portraying an inflated and misleading picture of its operational scale, revenue and financial health," Sebi observed in its report.The company, eponymously named after its chairman Rajesh Mehta, is accused of committing an elaborate financial fraud that includes dressing-up of revenues of ₹15.15 lakh crore over the years, personal gold trades covered up as corporate sales and phoney gold mine investments of ₹1,035 crore, according to the interim report.REL denied the charges of misdeeds. In a press release Thursday, the company said the revenues stated in its financials were correct and that the confusion arose because of a mix-up between Ebitda and revenue numbers at Swiss refiner Valcambi SA, an indirect subsidiary.Sebi has not made any adverse observation with regard to earnings, the company said, claiming that the regulator has only observed suspicion with regard to revenues which was primarily because of confusion over the Valcambi numbers.Numbers don't add upIn fiscal 2025, REL reported consolidated revenue of ₹4.23 lakh crore against a profit after tax of just ₹95 crore, translating into a net margin of barely 0.02%. The year before, on ₹2.8 lakh crore revenue, profit was ₹336 crore.Experts who have studied the Sebi report and the company's annual reports say the numbers did not add up. The business appeared to be operating at margins that were not merely thin but structurally negligible, they said."It looks like a case of pass-through accounting. There is no value creation. It was 'flow of gold' being booked as revenue," said a leading auditor on the condition of anonymity.Sebi, which began the investigations in March 2024 following a shareholder complaint about suspected accounting malpractices, said it found that about 97-99% of REL's consolidated revenues were attributed to its overseas subsidiaries, principally Valcambi. But Valcambi's own accounts, audited by KPMG SA, recorded only processing fees that were about ₹3,027 crore across five years.Valcambi refined gold on behalf of clients and never took ownership of the precious metal or recognised the value of gold as revenue in its books. Yet, Global Gold Refineries AG (GGR), the parent of Valcambi that had no independent operating business, recorded gross revenues running into hundreds of crores by including the gross value of gold that actually belonged to others, according to the Sebi report.Rajesh Exports, which owns GGR through a Singapore subsidiary, used those unaudited figures in its financial statements, significantly bumping up the company's revenue, it said.In its press release, REL said: "The core observation in the order is with regard to the misreporting of the revenues. This has emerged primarily due to confusion because Sebi has considered the Ebitda of Valcambi instead of revenue hence it has stated that there is a difference of about 97% in the revenue.""There is no reason for any listed entity to inflate revenue and maintain the earnings, this will only reduce the margins of the company, which would be adverse to the company," it said.Senior management in the darkThe senior management of REL told regulators that most of them were in the dark about the company's overseas operations and only the promoter, Rajesh Mehta, dealt with those activities."Valcambi SA does not have any gold mine on its own," managing director Suresh Gowda was quoted in the Sebi order as saying. "It refines the raw gold purchased by it from various entities, whose names I do not recollect, as these things are exclusively handled by Rajesh Mehta, chairman of REL. I have never interacted nor involved with any subsidiary/step-down subsidiary of REL, as these were exclusively taken care of by Rajesh Mehta," he told the investigators, as per the order.According to the report, REL booked ₹11,487 crore in sales between 2021-22 and 2023-24 to Affluence Shares and Stocks, a broker that made up to 66% of the company's standalone revenue for that period. But Affluence, in formal depositions to the regulator, said it had not done any business with REL.Following the transaction trail, the investigators found out that the transactions were personal gold derivative trades executed by promoter Mehta using his own brokerage account and then recorded in the company's books as corporate sales, the order said.The investigators also found that Mehta used corporate funds. As per the Sebi observations, bank records show REL transferred ₹338.90 crore directly into Mehta's personal accounts between April 2020 and September 2025.Unlike in the case of Nirav Modi or Gitanjali Gems, who are accused of bank fraud, Rajesh Exports doesn't appear to have borrowed big from banks or through sale of bonds, according to regulatory filings.The company's market cap was just over ₹3,000 crore, as per Thursday's closing share price. LIC (10.8%) and Bridge India Fund (8.46%) are its major institutional shareholders."It is striking that, even at a peak market capitalisation of ₹25,000 crore, the company did not hold any analyst calls, a basic expectation for a listed company of that scale," said Shriram Subramanian, founder and managing director of InGovern Research Services, a corporate governance advisory firm.The regulator in 2024 hired BDO India Services to investigate. But the forensic audit faced problems at almost every stage of the investigation. It was denied access to ERP systems and was not provided a complete journal dump, preventing independent verification of transactions recorded in the books, according to the regulatory report.And the company declined to share subsidiary-level records with the investigator, citing Swiss data protection laws, limiting auditors largely to reviewing financial statements prepared by the management itself rather than underlying evidence, it said.What's also come under the scanner was the conduct of statutory auditors for the last few years: CA PV Ramana Reddy, the proprietor at PV Ramana Reddy & Co, and CA PL Venkatadri, partner at BSD & Co.The company's FY24 and FY25 annual reports, filed with the stock exchanges, carry an unqualified opinion from BSD & Co, which concluded that the financial statements presented a "true and fair view" in line with Indian Accounting Standards.The company's FY24 Directors' Report noted that the statutory and secretarial auditors had made no qualifications, reservations or adverse remarks.The Sebi report said for over five months, the auditors sat on the regulator's request for missing documents and statements.Emails sent to both audit firms did not elicit any response.REL closed 5% lower at ₹103.92 Thursday on the NSE. The shares are down from their peak of ₹1,028.40 on February 6, 2023.
GENEVA, June 4 - Switzerland will deploy around 4,000 troops inside its territory to reinforce security as world leaders gather for the G7 summit in neighboring France in mid-June, the Swiss army said on Thursday.
The Swiss subsidiary of HSBC is suspected of having helped former Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh embezzle more than $300 million from the country's central bank. The charges mark a significant development in the French judicial investigation.
The Swiss parliament has approved a proposal to levy a tax on drivers passing through the country. Here's how the measure would affect travellers from Germany.