Bloomberg Swiss watch exports posted the biggest quarterly drop since 2009 as the industry faces declining demand in all its main markets. Shipments dropped 8.9 percent in the first quarter, adjusted for working days, according to data from Switzerland’s customs office. Exports declined 16 percent in March to 1.5 billion francs ($1.5 billion), the lowest level for that month in ...

  Bloomberg Sweden’s central bank will buy more bonds to drive down longer yields as policy makers try to fight currency gains that threaten to undermine their efforts to rekindle inflation. The Riksbank kept its benchmark repo rate at minus 0.5 percent, it said on Thursday. The decision was expected by all 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. It will add ...

  Bloomberg Pension funds, a key emerging investor in renewable energy projects, are likely to lose interest in new deals in the U.K. if voters opt to leave the bloc, said the head of PensionDanmark A/S. Uncertainty that would be caused by a U.K. decision to leave the EU following its June 23 referendum would increase the risk profile of ...