Car market
Chinese car brands gain ground on the Swiss market
In the first seven months of 2026, BYD overtook Tesla in electric car sales in Switzerland, growing by 1,197%. The market share of Chinese brands has been rising steadily for three years.
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Business, work and finance in Italian-speaking Switzerland
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Precious metals
Mendrisiotto, a global gold hub: 218 billion francs in trade in 2025
Free trade
Switzerland and China sign updated free trade agreement
Crypto theft
Binance hit by cyberattack, $6.3bn in crypto assets stolen
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity: Swiss SMEs are protected but not prepared for an attack
Banking
UBS closes third quarter with net profit of $2.7 billion
Retail sector
Migros to merge its 11 cooperatives into a single group
Cybersecurity
FreeScout fixes a security flaw discovered by Webcracy
Cybersecurity
Critical PHP and Node.js vulnerabilities, the fixes from October 21
Heritage and tourism
Vitaliano Borromeo Arese dies, the man who transformed tourism on Lake Maggiore
German crisis
Thiel and Huang criticise Germany's technological decline
Fuel prices
Oil prices fall, but petrol does not get cheaper in Switzerland
EU trade relations
France and Germany open the door to Switzerland on “Made in Europe” label
Banking sector
UBS weighs leaving Switzerland, but experts remain skeptical
Nobel in economics
Nobel in economics goes to Hall and Woodford, Fehr misses out again
Platform work
Uber drivers in Zurich say earnings keep shrinking
Cybersecurity
Ricardo data breach exposes information of 890,000 users
Wine industry
Parmelin backs away from support for Swiss wine growers
Air transport
Lugano Airport: federal concession renewed until 2056
Innovation and jobs
Robotics: 217 Swiss companies, over half from universities and research
Social security
AVS: minimum pension rises to 1,280 francs a month from January
Public finances
SNB caps annual payout to federal government and cantons at six billion
Digital businesses
Webcracy, the Locarno software house that keeps data in Ticino
Digital businesses
Webcracy, the Locarno software house that keeps data in Ticino
Financial supervision
FINMA closes proceedings against Julius Bär over Signa collapse
Meat imports
Brazil meat import ban hits poultry hardest
US Auto Industry
Trump eases fuel efficiency standards and ends electric vehicle mandate
Monetary policy
SNB keeps policy rate unchanged at 0% and raises growth forecast
Artificial intelligence
AI in 2031: powerful, ordinary, and still our responsibility
Telecommunications
Sunrise launches restructuring, up to 450 jobs at risk
Swiss retail
Migros reportedly considers merging or reducing its ten regional cooperatives
Fuel prices
Diesel hits an all-time high in Switzerland, above 2.40 francs
Nestlé in Russia
Moscow places two Russian Nestlé companies under external administration
Interest rates
Why interest rates remain low in Switzerland
Energy
Attack on Saudi pipeline pushes up oil price
Monetary policy
ECB raises interest rates by a quarter point to 2.50%
Employment
Zimmer Biomet to cut up to 580 jobs in Winterthur
Jobs
Swiss Post considers cutting up to 110 jobs
Auto industry
Volkswagen to cut 50,000 more jobs by 2030
Consumer prices
Swiss inflation rises again to 0.8% in August
Agricultural policy
Bern opens consultation on new agricultural policy from 2030
Banking regulation
Council of States committee softens capital rules for UBS
Banking regulation
UBS: Council of States committee eases federal government's capital plan
Venezuelan oil
Trump announces major US-Venezuela oil deal
Monetary policy
Fed chair Warsh opens the door to an interest rate hike
Auto industry
Volkswagen: unions warn up to 115,000 jobs at risk in Germany
Global logistics
Klaus-Michael Kühne, majority shareholder of Kühne+Nagel, dies at 89
Trade war
US-Canada tariffs: analyst Spannaus says the free-trade model is shifting
Free trade
Switzerland and China conclude talks to update free trade agreement
Wage talks
Travail.Suisse calls for a general 2% wage increase
Automotive
Electric cars pass 60% of new vehicle sales in China
Trade
Washington accuses China of evading tariffs through a transit network
Wealth
Ten rules for building wealth, according to historian Joseph Moore
Supervision
Finma: cyberattacks up by a third at supervised institutions
Technology
Microsoft has closed fifteen sites in China in five years
Energy
Petrobras confirms oil at the mouth of the Amazon
Courts
Five investors sue Selena Gomez over the Wondermind startup
Property
Swiss rents flat in July, but Lugano posts a 6.3% annual rise
Agriculture
Farm costs up and prices frozen: big retail in the dock
Banking
SNB and Finma back the new banking stability measures
Pharmaceuticals
MFN clause: one new medicine in three is not submitted in Switzerland
Energy
In the EU coal falls to 9.2 per cent of electricity generated
Trade
Beijing extends duties on Indian optical fibre for another five years
Payments
In the eurozone cash remains the most widely accepted means of payment
Stock market
The slide in On shares pushes Federer out of the billionaires' club
Digital competition
For the first time a rival app store appears inside Google Play
Digital assistants
Google's Gemini app passes one billion monthly users
Computing infrastructure
From bitcoin to artificial intelligence: Riot leases its sheds to Anthropic
Venture capital
One point one billion for a company two months old
Development tools
Spotify opens Xirp to everyone, the workbench for coding agents
Monetary policy
The SNB's first rate rise slips to 2027 or 2028
Food
Heat is not curbing meat, but drought is setting up price rises
Organisation
Job sharing reaches the top of Swiss companies
Financial centre
Lex UBS: Council of States committee buys time until 31 August
Employment
Cautious hiring in Switzerland, but AI skills command a premium
Artificial intelligence
Nvidia teams up with finance for 500 billion in AI infrastructure
Markets
On posts a record quarter but the stock falls 17 per cent
Reinsurance
Natural disasters: a first half below average, but not a quiet one
Branding
Trade association challenges the Swiss cross on foreign-made goods
Raw materials
The steel for the energy transition sits in old fossil infrastructure
Banking and geopolitics
Grübel criticises Europe's involvement in the Ukraine conflict
Artificial intelligence
«Europe has 5% of the world's computing capacity»
Online travel
Lastminute.com ends the half-year in the red and cuts its targets
Healthcare spending
Swiss healthcare costs accelerate as premiums weigh ever more heavily
Air transport
Geneva’s business community asks Apollo not to scale back easyJet in Geneva
Food industry
Kägi wafers under pressure: strong franc and US tariffs weigh on exports
Memory chips
Data centres are absorbing the RAM and prices are rising across the chain
Financial centre
Banking supervision, a Swiss history written by scandals
Quarterly results
Amrize grows in the second quarter on data centre demand
Economic outlook
Swiss consumer confidence improves only slightly in July
Artificial intelligence
Google moves its artificial intelligence leadership to California
Property
Housing bubble risk rises again, though not in Ticino
Labour market
Cross-border workers: Ticino edges up but stays below last year
Cryptocurrency
Large bitcoin theft shakes the myth of the offline wallet
Hypothesis
Betting on someone who has done nothing yet: two methods
Hypothesis
Public subsidy or venture capital: who pays for Swiss cinema
Acquisitions
Partners Group in talks to buy France's Aroma-Zone
Infrastructure
Partners Group invests over a billion in AVK Power Solutions
Telecoms
Swisscom opens a Lisbon site, and the union objects
Technology industry
Apple lowers its guidance over the memory chip shortage
Banking costs
Staying loyal to one bank can cost up to 964 francs a year
Alpine tourism
Heat lifts Swiss cable cars, but Ticino barely grows
Building sites and heat
Building contractors ask for heat delays to be freed from penalties
Electric mobility
Bidirectional charging appeals, but only a quarter know what it is
Markets
Amazon passes 3,000 billion on the stock market for the first time
Pharmaceuticals
AstraZeneca in talks to buy Bristol Myers Squibb
Car market
New car sales fall in July as BYD overtakes Tesla in Switzerland
Employment
Swiss banks are hiring again, with job adverts rising
Commodities
Glencore output falls but copper grows by 15%
Industry
Holcim raises its forecasts after a half-year above expectations
Industry
Interroll revenue grows but profits move lower
Employment
The KOF indicator points to improving employment prospects
Technology
Logitech opens the financial year with profits sharply higher
Swiss brands
Mammut passes to a Chinese investor for 500 million euros
Tourism
Overnight stays in Switzerland fall in the first half-year
Supervision
UBS fined 125 million dollars in the United States
Construction
Four Vallemaggia firms join together in a single holding
Prices
Flying costs 68% more than it did in 2021
Public transport
Zurich buys Chinese Yutong buses for the first time
Employment
Former Bally employees have waited two months for their wages
Financial markets
BIS warns: AI boom could put markets under pressure
Currency
Experts expect a strong franc also in 2026
Rail industry
New SBB railway hub takes shape in Arbedo-Castione
Legal disputes
Sandoz to pay almost $500 million to settle lawsuits in the US