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UBS gets wealthy client boost For Switzerland, it is tough being so popular especially when investors see this small country and its currency as a refuge from the growing euro zone crisis.
It is a popularity which has made the country’s franc soar to the point that the Swiss National Bank has intervened for the first time in over thirty years.
But can this swiss refuge weather the euro storm brewing at its borders?
More about: Banking, Currency, Euro, Financial Crisis, SwitzerlandCopyright © 2012 euronews
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