Swiss retailers prepare for price war
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Swiss retail giants Migros and Coop are gearing up for the expected arrival of Germany's two major discount chains, Aldi and Lidl.
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With growth slowing in China, Europe and Japan, some worry that rapidly escalating prices will trigger a self-reinforcing spiral of falling demand.
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New plans -- for dealing with inventory and slacking stores -- could make Dollar a bargain.
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Credit Suisse will seek to launch a  share buyback plan worth up to 6 billion Swiss francs ($5  billion), it said on Thursday, after reporting a better than  expected 22 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profits.
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Business & money: Retailer blames stayaway shoppers and fierce discounting by rivals for decline in sales
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The world's leading retailer may be ready to nibble at smaller concepts.
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The European Commission and Switzerland argue over tax breaks offered to Swiss-based firms.
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The discounter faces some pretty big "small" rivalry.
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German shoppers are splashing out on bigger items ahead of a sharp rise in VAT in January, a survey suggests.
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Switzerland's insurance industry is bracing itself for multimillion-dollar claims as a result of hurricane damage in the United States.
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Rumors that the Swiss banking giant is set to divide in two are unlikely to be true.
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Business & money: Retail group expects to hit profit forecasts as company boss puts his hopes in store revamps.
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Business & money: Large queues and pre-dawn scuffles as prospect of cut-price clothes lures bargain-seekers to Oxford Street
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Consumers pay the price for high merchant fees.
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When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
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Eurozone indicators to be released in the coming week are expected to show an increase in July wholesale prices and a slide in retail sales, as well as stronger industrial output in the bloc's largest economy, Germany, economists said.
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Shoppers headed to malls and stores to grab discounted coats, cashmere sweaters, and other items yesterday as merchants slashed prices even deeper in hopes