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You don't get paid a monthly interest to borrow, the Swiss govt does. Big difference...

Genius! Why didn't I think of this myself?

135-20 or thereabouts, at least according to my arithmetic...

Buy bonds, wear diamonds...

How do you define alpha?

Germany has no problems...

DB is not the immediate problem, especially since it's a German bank. There's something a lot closer to home, i.e. the Italian banks, which has potential to really screw up the EU.

In other European news: *AUSTRIAN COURT ORDERS REPEAT OF PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF VOTE So we might, after all, end up with a far-right president in Austria.

Whatever your subjective judgement of the Swiss deal might be, I think it would be wise to wait for the outcome of the negotiations...

Huh? You're rather confused, I think... To be very clear, I am referring to the ongoing negotiations between the EU and Switzerland regarding the legally binding 2014 rejection by Swiss citizens of the "free movement" principle. I have mentioned this in my previous posts.

Sorry, I don't really understand... What's wrong with Switzerland, specifically?

Well, like I have said a few times, they're definitely negotiating with the Swiss, so let's just see, shall we? Moreover, Michel Sapin said that "everything, including freedom of movement" is on the table in the negotiations.

Yes, I mean the Swiss-EU negotiations... Obviously, Switzerland is not a member of either the EU or the EEA, but I think the precedent would be instructive. And yes, there talk now that the Article 50 could either take a long time or not happen at all, in fact. In other news, FTSE 100 is...

You are aware, of course, that the Swiss people have voted against the freedom of movement in a referendum held in 2014? This, unlike the UK referendum, is legally binding and has to come into effect by February 2017. Negotiations with the EU are still going, so too early to tell what the...

Best of luck to you!

I know how you feel, having missed a beauty of a trade in the past couple of days... I look at equity options, yes, including FTSE MIB, although it's not my main focus. Furthermore, this particular index is a bit peripheral for me, excuse the pun. Still, I have dabbled. My way of looking at...

I look at those, yes, but I am not sure I can help you with your issue, as it appears to have something to do with IB.

UK markets? FTSE MIB?

The Swiss are doing pretty well, aren't they, all things considered? And they sure love their referenda over there... In fact, curiously enough, those xenophobic bigots in Switzerland got a little unhappy about immigration well before the UK. In spite of the possible economic fallout, which...

Indeed, that's probably fair... Not sure that's going to be enough to offset the drag from everything else, to be honest...