{"id":23456,"date":"2011-08-26T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:10:38","slug":"further-signs-of-swiss-economic-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/26\/further-signs-of-swiss-economic-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Signs of Swiss Economic Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s publication by Switzerland of its KOF Economic Barometer revealed growing concerns about the future of the Alpine nation\u2019s growth potential. The rising strength of the franc (CHF) has begun to worry many investors who see its meteoric rise as a sign of future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/25\/zew-report-gouges-swiss-economic-outlook\/\">trade gouging and GDP decline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15418\"><\/span>Today\u2019s KOF report only served to underline this heightened tension. The figure was forecast to come in near a reading of 1.84, but fell from last month\u2019s adjusted 1.98 reading to 1.61 over the past month. With the other safe haven currencies, the USD and JPY, meeting resistance from market tension and bank interventions, respectively, the Swiss franc still appears to be climbing despite this growing pessimism.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Friday\u2019s publication by Switzerland of its KOF Economic Barometer revealed growing concerns about the future of the Alpine nation\u2019s growth potential. The rising strength of the franc (CHF) has begun to worry many investors who see its meteoric ris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}