Sentences with phrase «francs after»

After the Swiss National Bank announcement, the euro was trading at just above the central bank's new target of 1.20 Swiss francs after trading near 1.10 francs.

Practice makes perfect: but perfection still hadn't quite been achieved when, a fortnight ago, the whole organisation was held to ransom for two million French francs after some 1200 electronic components that are indispensable to the running of its particle accelerators were removed and hidden.

Not exact matches

After Switzerland's surprise move to unpeg its franc, speculators are eyeing Denmark's currency peg, but the Danes likely won't follow suit, analysts say.

In fact, the Swiss franc rose 1 percent against the dollar on Wednesday morning, as investors looked for safe options after North Korea said it was «carefully examining» a plan to strike Guam, where a U.S. military base is located.

That was evident in the franc's movements in the markets after it abandoned the peg.

The Swiss franc achieved a turbo - charged lift Thursday after the Swiss National Bank, or SNB, ditched an increasingly expensive policy to limit the export - sapping rise of the currency.

Switzerland will probably feel more pressure from its deflationary problems after last year's decision to de-peg the Swiss Franc from the euro, which caused the franc to soar.

Most of the gains were seen on Monday (see chart) when gold surged the day after the Swiss gold referendum, to have a mandatory 20 % gold backing for the Swiss franc, was badly defeated.

In addition to the approximately 2 million Swiss francs worth of assets that the regulatory body has already managed to recover or block, it anticipates potentially seizing more after the conclusion of these proceedings.

The franc was driven lower by the -0.75 % Swiss deposit rate along with the widespread expectation for the SNB to remain strongly committed to negative interest rates until after the ECB starts tightening.

BlueCrest Suffers Losses BlueCrest Capital Management temporary forbid Peter Von Maydell's trading after he experienced losses due to the Swiss franc's rise last week.

Swiss researchers found in one 2008 study that flu viruses, which typically survive for a couple days on Swiss francs, can survive up to 17 days if accompanied by mucus — spelling trouble for folks who handle cash after someone else with a runny nose handled it.

After LEP shut down in 2000, physicists then reused the LEP tunnel to house the LHC, which cost 6 billion Swiss francs and turned on in 2008, saving a billion or two in construction expenses.

The Grande Galerie of the Natural History Museum in Paris was inaugurated by President Francois Mitterrand after a 420 million franc (# 50 million) facelift.

Soon after the announcement, the euro was trading at just above the 1.20 Swiss franc target after earlier being at around 1.10 francs.

In just a few minutes after the central bank's accouncemend, the Swiss franc shot up against all major currencies.

In my monthly dividend income posts I present the effective net amounts (after taxes) credited on my bank account, which is denominated in Swiss franc.

After earlier reports that Sony was closing down Zipper Interactive, the studio that handles the SOCOM franc... Read More

Those figures were boosted by two purchases by Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau, who set an auction record when he paid 48.6 million Swiss francs ($ 47 million) for a blue diamond in Geneva at Sotheby's on Nov. 11, a day after paying 28.7 million Swiss francs for a pink diamond at Christie's.

She is currently representing a group of clients against IG, a FTSE 250 spread betting company, in relation to IG's handling of their EUR / CHF trades on 15 January 2015 after the Swiss National Bank removed the «floor» exchange rate of 1.20 Swiss francs per Euro.