Farmers Watch Winter Direct Payments as Feed Costs Stay High
The federal payment landed. So did the bill for feed. The gap between those two numbers is the winter.
January 2025
12 posts in the January 2025 file.
Friday, 31 January 2025
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Ticino Fog and a Slow Gotthard Start the Working Week
The southern canton began a grey week with the usual two bottlenecks: weather on the plain and traffic in the tunnel.
Monday, 27 January 2025
SBB January Punctuality Holds, German Arrivals Do Not
Swiss clocks still work. The problem is the trains that arrive from the north already late.
Friday, 24 January 2025
Aargau Machine Shops Report a Thin January Order Book
The canton that ships metal into Germany started the year counting unfilled hours, not overtime.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Swiss Trade Pitch Continues in Davos Side Rooms
The public programme is a stage. The Swiss work is a sequence of small rooms with bad coffee and a real agenda.
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Davos Opens With Swiss Hosts Pushing Trade Stability
Snow, security fences and a familiar argument: small open economies need rules that large ones do not rewrite every quarter.
Saturday, 18 January 2025
Davos Puts Up the WEF Fences Before the Delegates Arrive
The steel goes up before the name badges. For the valley that is the reliable sign that the week has started.
Monday, 13 January 2025
Cornavin and the Border Feel the January Return of Frontaliers
The first full week of work brought back the queues that tourism brochures never photograph.
Thursday, 9 January 2025
SNB Watches a Firm Franc After December's Rate Cut
A half-percent policy rate and a firm franc set the tone for the first weeks of the year.
Wednesday, 8 January 2025
Midwinter Beds Fill in the Oberland After a Slow Start
A late rush of German and Dutch bookings eased a nervous start to the ski weeks.
Monday, 6 January 2025
Zurich Housing Lists Barely Move After the Holiday Pause
The city's empty-flat rate did not take a holiday. Cooperative clerks returned to the same arithmetic.
Friday, 3 January 2025
New KVG Premiums Land in January Invoices
The first invoices of 2025 carry the 6 percent average rise that Bern announced last autumn.