IWC Schaffhausen watches costing as much as $121,000 will go on sale at Mr Porter and Net-A-Porter on November 18, as the Swiss watchmaker tests whether online shoppers might help pull it out of an industry slump.
IWC has never before partnered with an online-only luxury retailer; Net-A-Porter will launch with a curated selection of timepieces across the Pilot’s Watches and Portofino families.
Global economic crisis, financial instability, fear of the future. These are the prevailing feelings among investors in Europe The most satisfactory answers, for those not looking for speculation, retain the diamonds on top.
The just-released De Beers 2016 Insight Report forecasts nine dominant features and trends that are likely to influence the international diamond business, not just moving ahead into 2017, but for several years beyond. How they interact with one another, and how the industry responds, is likely to dictate results and prices through to the next decade.
Swiss mortgage rates are at a record low without any downward trend: this is the housing market’s situation that emerges from the latest Mortgage Barometer carried out by the website Comparis.ch.
In the Q3 2016, the 10-year fixed-rate mortgages has again decreased slightly, dropping to 1.45%, 0.06% less than the previous three months. The same trend was also observed for five-year mortgages (from 1.11% to 1.09%) and for one-year (from 1,10% to 1.06%).
Financial traders can be better than machine, according to research published in Scientific Reports "People with greater sensitivity to interoceptive signals … perform better in laboratory studies of risky decision-making" and a sixth sense, or just a gut feeling, is the best friend for a trader.
Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Sussex in England and Australia’s Queensland University of Technology found that the best traders are aware of their bodies’ signals, even if unconsciously, and use them to make more money.
When something extraordinary happens, such as Brexit, it is necessary to observe and analyse its potential financial and economic impact. While the first steps must still be taken in the negotiations for the UK’s exit from the EU, together with Keller Zable we have taken a look at the possible scenarios in the real estate market, with particular attention to Great Britain, the rest of Europe and possible developments.
Living in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, is now "cheaper". Among the first effects of the British economy Brexit was also a fall in prices of apartments for sale in London.
Rental house’s market is down slightly: in the winter semester from October to March, the Swiss web platforms have been proposed 123.563 apartments, – 6% compared to the previous six months.
Further evidence of the market cooling is the increase in the average period during which an advertisement is active, increased from 27 to 29 days. The index shows that research is mostly aimed at local apartments of 1-2 and a high rent increases are the days when the post is online. This was revealed by the OWI index published by the Svit, the Swiss economy estate association. Only two of the twelve cities under consideration РNeuch̢tel and St. Gallen Рshowed a contraction of the times when ads are on the sites. The biggest rises were seen in Sion, Chur and Lugano.
