Remember when bashing central banks and predicting financial collapse as a result of monetary manipulation and intervention was considered “fake news” within the “serious” financial community, disseminated by fringe blogs? Good times. In an interview with Swiss Sonntags Blick titled appropriately enough “A Recession Is Sometimes Necessary“, the former CEO of UBS and Credit Suisse, Oswald Grübel, lashed out by...
Read More »Former CEO Of UBS And Credit Suisse: “Central Banks Are Past The Point Of No Return, It Will All End In A Crash”
Remember when bashing central banks and predicting financial collapse as a result of monetary manipulation and intervention was considered "fake news" within the "serious" financial community, disseminated by fringe blogs? Good times. In an interview with Swiss Sonntags Blick titled appropriately enough "A Recession Is Sometimes Necessary", the former CEO of UBS and Credit Suisse, Oswald Grübel, lashed out by criticizing the growing strength of central banks and their ‘supremacy over the...
Read More »Argor-Heraeus: Another giant Swiss gold refinery goes on the Sales Lot
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com News has just emerged in the gold market that the giant Swiss precious metals refiner Argor-Heraeus has held discussions to be acquired, and that the likely outcome is an acquisition by a private equity group. This private equity group is believed to be London-based WRM CapInvest, part of Zurich headquartered WRM Capital. Other interested buyers are also believed to have...
Read More »Argor-Heraeus: Another giant Swiss gold refinery goes on the Sales Lot
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com News has just emerged in the gold market that the giant Swiss precious metals refiner Argor-Heraeus has held discussions to be acquired, and that the likely outcome is an acquisition by a private equity group. This private equity group is believed to be London-based WRM CapInvest, part of Zurich headquartered WRM Capital. Other interested buyers are also believed to have...
Read More »Argor-Heraeus: Another giant Swiss gold refinery goes on the Sales Lot
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com News has just emerged in the gold market that the giant Swiss precious metals refiner Argor-Heraeus has held discussions to be acquired, and that the likely outcome is an acquisition by a private equity group. This private equity group is believed to be London-based WRM CapInvest, part of Zurich headquartered WRM Capital. Other interested buyers are also believed to have examined a bid for Argor-Heraeus, including Japanese refining group Asahi...
Read More »Cashless Society – Is The War On Cash Set To Benefit Gold?
Submitted by Jan Skoyles via GoldCore.com, Introduction Cash is the new “barbarous relic” according to many central banks, regulators, and some economists and there is a strong, concerted push for the ‘cashless society’. Developments in recent days and weeks have highlighted the risks posed by the war on cash and the cashless society. The Presidential campaign has been dominated for months and again this week by the...
Read More »What Are Activist Investors Looking For?
Activist investors have been living up to their name in recent years, waging campaigns against an increasingly diverse array of companies of all shapes and sizes. The number of activist campaigns more than quadrupled from 104 in 2000 to 487 in 2015 and, according to the Financial Times, more than 40 percent of the 500 largest public companies in the United States attracted activist attention between 2009 and 2015. Assets under activist management have been growing at nearly 20 percent a year...
Read More »Emission des Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Green Property
Der Immobilienfonds Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Green Property führt vom 31. Oktober bis 11. November 2016 eine Kapitalerhöhung von maximal CHF 173 Mio. durch. Die am 22. September 2016 in Aussicht gestellte Kapitalerhöhung wird durchgeführt. Die Liegenschaften des Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Green Property (CS REF Green Property, Valor 10 077 844) wurden durch die...
Read More »The Swiss Begin To Hoard Cash
While subtle, the general public loss of faith in central banking has been obvious to anyone who has simply kept their eyes open: it started in Japan where in February hardware stores were reported that consumers were hoarding cash, as confirmed by the spike in demand for safes, “a place where the interest rate on cash is always zero, no matter what the central bank does.” Then, as we reported just over a week ago,...
Read More »CS’s Private Banking to Expand in Middle East
Khan said IWM expected to expand in the Middle East, as millionaires in the region rise to 500,000 from about 330,000, including seeking to secure an onshore banking license for Saudi Arabia. During an interview with Bloomberg television in Dubai, Khan listed the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as the most promising markets in the Middle East. "We're growing our coverage base across international wealth management and a material part of that is going to be in the...
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