Swiss Life CEO to Step Down

[ad_1] Swiss Life Holding said Patrick Frost has decided to step down as chief executive at the group’s annual general meeting in May next year, after 10 years at the…

WSJ News Exclusive | Israel Plans to Kill Hamas Leaders Around the World After War

[ad_1] Updated Dec. 1, 2023 12:06 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) TEL AVIV—Israel’s intelligence services are preparing to kill Hamas leaders around the world when the nation’s war…

He Bought a Piece of the Chrysler Building. Now His Empire Is Falling Apart.

[ad_1] Nov. 29, 2023 11:05 am ET The property slump sweeping the globe has claimed a new high-profile victim: René Benko, an Austrian-born retail and department-store magnate who also co-owns…

Behind Credit Suisse’s Fall: A Chairman’s Lasting Mark on the Culture

[ad_1] Nov. 24, 2023 11:00 pm ET When Credit Suisse’s board met to approve the bank’s forced sale to UBS in March, paintings of every bank chairman since 1856 lined…

‘Vienna’ Review: Where the World Went Modern

[ad_1] In 1980, the intellectual historian Carl E. Schorske published “Fin de Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture,” noting that he had turned his attention to the Austrian capital to better…

Amazon Faces Black Friday Strikes in US, Europe

[ad_1] Updated Nov. 24, 2023 7:52 am ET Amazon.com faced strikes in the U.S. and Europe on Black Friday, hitting the e-commerce giant at the start of the busy holiday…

‘Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon’: Pipilotti Rist’s Too-Sweet Sideshows

[ad_1] At Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine, the Swiss artist’s colorful installations form an uncharacteristically unsatisfying two-part exhibition. [ad_2] Source link

‘The Last Ships From Hamburg’ Review: Voyage to the Golden Land

[ad_1] The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I By Steven Ujifusa Harper 384 pages We may…

Opinion | Hamas Attack Reminds Europeans of the Virtue of Sovereignty

[ad_1] Europe has discovered that it has an anti-Semitism crisis on its hands. And now some politicians claim to have found the answer: Deport the anti-Semites. It’s a response as…

How a Banking Capital of the World Botched Its Own Banking Rules

[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) Switzerland wanted its big banks to be fortresses. In practice, the country’s “too big to fail” banking laws made a sand castle of Credit…