LONDON (Reuters) - The world's top trading houses appear to be quickly turning into commodity finance banks, by lending billions of dollars to clients as a decades-long dominance of French banks ...

A hamlet on Switzerland's Italian border could offer the deal of a lifetime for house flippers — it's considering selling nine houses for just one Swiss franc each. By offloading the broken-down stone ...

No longer solely for the ski set, Crans-Montana welcomes year-round visitors. An exclusive apartment in this Carlo Rampazzi-designed Alpine property is on the market. Price upon request. Switzerland’s ...

Although jobs will be lost in the short term, hotels expect a healthy bump from the building ban and villages agree a more sustainable form of tourism will have room to grow. From Hollywood directors ...

The first six months of 2015 saw a stagnant Swiss auction market as the auction houses have been struggling to attract key lots and buyers from abroad. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the ...

ZURICH — A Swiss-U.S. deal to end a tax dispute that nearly crippled UBS and undermined Swiss bank secrecy inched closer to approval in the full Parliament as the upper house gave it its backing ...