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...The SMI, a private-sector grouping of chief executives, highlighted what it believed to be insurance industry gaps in a report issued last year....
...Bloomberg data showed it to be smaller than: All other members of Switzerland’s SMI benchmark....
...What is more encouraging is that the SMI report shows there has been a zeitgeist shift that has even reached the spreadsheets of some capitalists....
...The Swiss SMI index edged higher. Spreads did not widen. One explanation is that Bern has prepared counter measures. A third of trading in Swiss stocks is outside Switzerland....
...SMI Holdings, one of China’s largest chains, was forced to close 140 of its 320 cinemas late last year because of unpaid debts....
...Making an extra pensions contribution is the obvious one....
...One pioneering exception is the Melchsee-Frutt ski resort between Lucerne and Interlaken....
...So how much store, if any, should one put on the SMI index?...
...The country’s blue-chip index, the SMI, which fell 8.7 per cent on Thursday, dropped another 4.5 per cent, with the private bank Julius Baer down 8.5 per cent, and the watchmakers Swatch and Richemont both...
...Turing SMI was liquidated in 2008. Ingenie reported total sales in 2012 of £1.2m....
...The country’s main equities index, the SMI, fell 10 per cent on the bank’s announcement....
...Switzerland’s blue-chip index, the SMI, plummeted 10 per cent, with the shares of Swatch and Richemont — both of which are big exporters — down 16 per cent....
...“The only issue was, everyone was selling and no one was buying, so there was a natural ‘floor’ the liquidity,” said one trader....
...At one point on Thursday, the euro traded at SFr0.8702, a drop of 28 per cent from the previous day’s close....
...“It was one of three “managed office locations” inherited from subsidiary SMI, and provided US mailing addresses,” it said....
...A decision on whether to proceed swiftly with the idea during this parliament is likely to be taken within months, according to one Whitehall source....
...One of the core software engines of the Quindell solutions product was acquired via a joint intellectual property licensing agreement with The Innovation Group plc....
...Italian grid operator Terna was one of the worst performing stocks, sliding 3.4 per cent to €3.36....
...The shares fell 3.7 per cent to SFr108.2 against a 0.5 per cent loss on the Swiss SMI index to 7,653.95....
...In what way should one be more concerned with the situation at Nokia today than yesterday?” he added....
...Analysts at Nomura highlighted Suedzucker as one of a clutch of food companies set to benefit from a jump in soft commodity prices....
...According to Fidessa, a trading technology company, SIX has a 68 per cent market share of the Swiss blue-chip SMI index, with Chi-X Europe grabbing a 20 per cent share....
...Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group , one of the country’s top exporters, climbed 3.1 per cent to SFr371 and Sonova , the wireless company, jumped 5.8 per cent to SFr63.50....
...Switzerland’s stock market surged, with Zurich’s SMI gaining 4 per cent....
...The deal is the latest move by SMI, which is largely dependent on its Japanese non-life insurance business, to diversify operations for a greater emphasis on life insurance markets overseas....
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