Die Zurich Insurance Group hat sich für die kommenden drei Jahre neue, ambitiösere Ziele gesetzt. Der weltweit tätige Versicherungskonzern will profitabel weiterwachsen und an die Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre auch in Zukunft grosszügig Geld ausschütten.

Gold price attracts buyers for the fourth consecutive day and climbs to over a one-week high. Geopolitical risks stemming from the Russia-Ukraine conflict benefit the safe-haven XAU/USD. Elevated US bond yields could underpin the US Dollar and cap the non-yielding yellow metal. Gold price (XAU/USD) adds to its intraday gains and climbs to a fresh one-and-half-week high, around the $2,664-2,665 area during the first half of the European session...

As he did during his first term in office, president-elect Trump is pushing an "America First" foreign policy agenda. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Listen to the article Listening the article...

A central debate in the philosophy of science concerns the purpose of scientific theories: should they aim to represent the world as accurately as possible or is it sufficient for them to produce useful predictions? Milton Friedman’s influential essay The Methodology of Positive Economics argues for the latter, suggesting that the primary goal of a theory is to generate accurate predictions, regardless of whether its assumptions reflect reality. This...

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Die Privatbank Julius Bär hat in den ersten zehn Monaten 2024 weitere Neugelder angezogen und die verwalteten Vermögen gesteigert. Für das Gesamtjahr erwartet die Bank einen Konzerngewinn deutlich über dem Niveau des vom Signa-Debakel geprägten Vorjahres.

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

In Costa Rica, and in most Latin American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, etc.) the aguinaldo—a legally-mandated Christmas bonus—is an acquired labor right and is meant to provide workers with additional financial security. Unlike discretionary year-end bonuses in the United States, this one is an obligatory payment enforced by Costa Rican labor law.Employers are required to pay an amount equivalent to one month’s salary at the end of each year,...

1730 GMT/1230 US Eastern time: Speech by member of the board of the Swiss National Bank Petra Tschudin and Thomas Moser, "The Swiss Repo Market: 25 Years of Success for the Financial Centre and the National Bank", Money Market EventPetra Tschudin is the a member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bankalso Head of Department III (Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Banking Operations and Information Technology, as well as the Singapore...