SNB & CHF

31.01.2020 – Turnover adjusted for sales days and holidays fell in the retail sector by 0.4% in nominal terms in December 2019 compared with the previous year. Seasonally adjusted, nominal turnover fell by 0.4% compared with the previous month. These are provisional findings from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Real turnover adjusted for sales days and holidays rose in the retail sector by 0.1% in December 2019 compared with the previous year. Real growth takes...

USD/CHF confronts 23.6% Fibonacci retracement following the bounce off 21-day SMA. Early month lows add to the support while 38.2% Fibonacci retracement, 50-day SMA will challenge recovery moves. USD/CHF takes the bids to 0.9707 during the pre-Europe session on Friday. In doing so, the pair repeats the tendency of staying beyond 21-day SMA while also confronting 23.6% Fibonacci retracement of its declines from November 29, 2019, to January 16, 2020. The sustained...

The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting today; the dollar continues to climb The FOMC meeting was a non-event; US advance Q4 GDP will be reported Risk-off sentiment has derailed curve steepening trades Implied rates still suggest that today’s BOE meeting is a coin toss Turkish central bank released its quarterly inflation report; Asian markets got hit hard again with rising virus concerns The dollar is broadly firmer against the majors ahead of the...

. Wildcat mining has devastated large chunks of the Peruvian Amazon, where gold is extracted and makes its way to the refineries and banks in Switzerland. swissinfo.ch visited the southeastern region of Madre de Dios and spoke to artisanal miners who have benefited from the gold rush to educate their families and create jobs, as well as those who have fallen afoul of the law. In the past three decades, 960 square kilometres of forests were lost here to gold mining,...

Sound money is a key to a free and prosperous society. That principle was clearly reflected in the monetary system that the Constitution established when it called the federal government into existence. Our ancestors didn’t trust government officials with power. They believed that the greatest threat to their own freedom and well-being lay not with some foreign regime but rather with their own government. They understood that historically most people had lost their...

Swiss Franc The Euro has fallen by 0.21% to 1.0689 EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, January 30(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates Overview: The ongoing concerns about the geometric progression of the new coronavirus continues to swamp other considerations for investors. Risk continues to be unwound, as the World Health Organization meets to decide if this is indeed a global health emergency. Several large equity markets...

Returning SBTV guest, Charles Hugh Smith, calls the Federal Reserve an evil organization. Their meddling in the economy results in the concentration of wealth to those at the top of the wealth pyramid and is fueling asset bubbles, creating widening wealth inequality. Charles Hugh Smith is the editor of the OfTwoMinds blog: https://www.oftwominds.com Discussed in this interview: 01:53 Where has the trillions printed gone? 05:12 Gap between Fed's theory vs reality 08:29 Fed-created cartels...

USD/CHF snaps two-day winning streak, reversed from monthly resistance line. Buyers will remain hopeful unless the channel’s support breaks. 50% and 38.2% of Fibonacci retracements could offer intermediate halts during the declines. USD/CHF declines to 0.9728, -0.11%, by the press time of early Thursday. The pair recently reversed from an ascending trend line since December 29, 2019. Even so, it stays inside the short-term bullish technical formation. Considering the...

Returning SBTV guest, Charles Hugh Smith, calls the Federal Reserve an evil organization. Their meddling in the economy results in the concentration of wealth to those at the top of the wealth pyramid and is fueling asset bubbles, creating widening wealth inequality. Charles Hugh Smith is the editor of the OfTwoMinds blog: https://www.oftwominds.com Discussed in this interview: 01:53 Where has the trillions printed gone? 05:12 Gap between Fed's theory vs reality 08:29 Fed-created cartels...

Zermatt is a regular haunt for well-heeled international winter sports lovers. (© Keystone / Christian Beutler) The iconic ski resort of Zermatt has become the second local authority in Switzerland to allow residents to pay their tax bills using the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Zermatt, which lies in the shadow of the Matterhorn mountain, said on Tuesday that it will allow people living there to pay the whole range of taxes in bitcoin with no limit on the amount they...