Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on June 23
23/06/2016 06:01
ZURICH, June 23 (Reuters) - The following are some of the
main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks on Thursday:
ROCHE ROG.S
Roche is increasingly confident it will continue to increase
sales and profit even as cut-rate copies of the Swiss
drugmaker's older cancer medicines start to grab business next
year, its chief executive said. "In terms of growth, I am now at
the point where I sleep much better," Severin Schwan told
Reuters on a visit to London. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N19E45E
For more news, click ROG.S
CREDIT SUISSE CSGN.S
Credit Suisse and China Merchants 600036.SS are among the
suitors bidding for Royal Bank of Scotland's Greek shipping
finance business which is worth about $3 billion, banking and
financial sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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A former Credit Suisse AG banker pleaded guilty on Wednesday
in U.S. District Court in Virginia to charges of helping U.S.
taxpayers evade income taxes, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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U.S. authorities are investigating Credit Suisse's
operations in Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing
people familiar with the matter. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN19E0ES
For more news, click CSGN.S
UBS UBSG.S
The United States has dismissed a summons enforcement action
against UBS AG after the bank complied with an Internal Revenue
Service summons for bank records held in its Singapore office,
the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nEMN3O7F6L
For more news, click UBSG.S
COMPANY STATEMENTS CPR-CH
* Sika AG SIK.S said it had been informed that
Schenker-Winkler Holding AG (SWH) challenges certain decisions
of its annual general meeting of April 12. SWH challenges the
re-election to the board of directors of Monika Ribar and Paul
Haelg, Daniel Sauter, Ulrich Suter and Christoph Tobler and
non-election of Jacques Bischoff as a board member SIK.S
* Meyer Burger MBTN.S said it had won a 21 million Swiss
franc order from a Chinese tier-one supplier in the solar
industry. The high-tech equipment will be used for the
production of solar wafers. MBTN.S
* Carlo Gavazzi GAV.S reported a 0.5 percent increase in
operating revenue to 130.2 million Swiss francs ($135.81
million). Group net income amounted to 9.6 million francs
against 12.3 million francs in the previous year, mainly due to
an exchange loss of 0.7 million francs due to the uneven
movement of the euro against the U.S. dollar compared to an
exchange gain of 1 million francs last year. GAV.S
ECONOMY M-CH
($1 = 0.9587 Swiss francs)
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