Zug, Switzerland News

United States Oil Fund , the first exchange-traded fund for crude futures, said it didna t cause the record high and subsequent collapse in oil prices last year.

Mike Davis: mining's big gun Title: Chief executive, Xstrata Age: 44 Pay: $1m salary, $183,000 a year housing allowance, bonus of up to 100 per cent of salary, plus share options.

Via SwissInfo.ch: The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus in Switzerland has reached 75 .

ANDY HOFFMAN Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009 07:46PM EDT A group of former Coalcorp Mining Inc.

Glencore International, the Swiss-based commodities trader founded by Marc Rich to become one of the world's biggest private companies, is considering a stock market listing, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Canton Zug continues to be a magnet for new inhabitants from within Switzerland and abroad, thanks to its recent history of lowering tax rates.

Andy Hoffman and Paul Waldie Globe and Mail Update, Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 07:51PM EDT I n the spring of 2008, the head of Neo Material Technologies Inc.

Just six days later, it made a splash at the first Expat-Expo Basel at the Basel Messe complex.

OTTAWA, May 14 /CNW Telbec/ - Northern Shield Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed a non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $1,424,500 by issuing 15,827,777 shares and 6,733,889 warrants with each whole warrant exercisable for one common share at a price of $0.15 for a period of 18 months.

ZUG, Switzerland-Paris Re Holdings Ltd. has reported a net income of $118.6 million for the first quarter of 2009, compared with a loss of $129.5 million for the same period in 2008.

Plans by the central canton of Obwalden to reserve sections of land for its wealthier inhabitants to build homes have been condemned as a form of "apartheid". The canton's authorities have hit back at the mounting criticism, saying that rich provide valuable income for everyone.

Oil rose to a six-month high in New York as a rebound in equity markets stoked speculation that an economic recovery will reduce the glut of fuel supplies.

ZUG, Switzerland, May 06, 2009 -- Regulatory News: Petroplus Holdings AG today announced that at its Annual General Meeting, shareholders approved a reduction of share capital by repayment of CHF 0.60 par value per share to shareholders payable on July 28, 2009.

Gazprom shadow falls over Hungary By Roman Kupchinsky Russian energy giant Gazprom may be preparing to take over a large part of the Hungarian domestic gas distribution network.

Toronto, Canada and Zug, Switzerland. - May 5, 2009 - TD Asset Management Inc., one of Canada's largest investment management firms, and ASSET4 AG , a leading provider of verifiable environmental, social and corporate governance information, announced today that TD Asset Management has acquired a subscription for ASSET4's ESG information solution.

Zug, Switzerland, April 28, 2009 - Landis+Gyr welcomes two European Parliament votes that ensure smart metering will play a lead role in enabling the European Union to meet its ambitious environmental and energy efficiency goals.

Outlook: Zug in central Switzerland, conveniently located within reach of some of the country's ritziest ski resorts, is no doubt a nice enough place for a visit.

I have written for years about the colonial aspects of living in rural Canada, most of that experience gained from my life in northern Ontario and my family history in Nova Scotia.

Evidence that Anglophone expats are not shying away from setting up their own businesses was very much on offer at the Expat-Expo in Cham, near Zug.

As soon as Alistair Darling revealed the 50% income tax rate for those earning over 150,000 on Wednesday, he was accused of saving the wrong economy.