Swiss Franc

  • BusinessAOL

    The day 370 investors lost £18.4 million in a matter of minutes

    In just a few minutes on January 15, 370 investors lost thousands of pounds, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of pounds. They had placed spread bets on the currency market, which meant that some of them lost far more than they had staked.

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  • NewsAOL

    Swiss MPs grill central bank chief

    A Swiss parliamentary committee is to hold a hearing with central bank chief Philipp Hildebrand behind closed doors in a bid to get answers about private currency deals he engaged in while leading efforts to soften the Swiss franc. Mr