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Nobody seems to be sure exactly what German police found in DON JOHNSON'S car when they stopped him at the Swiss border. He says they're legitimate business documents. The Germans say they're $8 billion in credit notes, checks and securities, and they're investigating a possible link between the Miami Vice star and an international money-laundering operation. According to Johnson, the papers weren't even his--he was merely on his way to shop for a new car. One thing is certain in all this: had it been David Hasselhoff, you just know they would have...
...teens are on a local crime spree and the trial of O.J. Simpson is on every TV. What Daniel and Iris now stand to lose are the lives they have constructed to protect themselves from that world. Daniel and Kate have "a levelheaded alliance." She thinks of them as "Swiss bankers of the heart." But after three years in placid Leyden, she has a full inventory of wifely complaints. ("His smile can grate on her as if it were a cough.") And Daniel wants the rapture he finds with Iris. "He is like a man who suddenly discovers...
INDICATORS Feeling The Tremors A slate of Europe's battered insurers cut dividends last week, including Aviva, Zurich Financial, AXA and Swiss Re, which trimmed payouts for the first time since the San Francisco earthquake...
...BOTTOM LINE 'When I came here the debt mountain looked like the Himalayas. Now it's like the Matterhorn' PETER VOSER, financial director of Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB, putting a brave face on a record $787 million annual loss
...That might seem like a fatal flaw for an entrepreneur with a strange passion to "reinvent the world of boring, burnt-coffee business conferences." But Barnes' discomfort led him to a gadget called Spotme, which makes its U.K. debut at his upcoming London Business Forum. Developed by a tiny Swiss company called Shockfish, Spotme thrusts the awkward business of fumbling for names and exchanging business cards into the 21st century. Upon entering a conference, delegates' pictures and details are taken, then beamed to Spotme devices issued to everyone in attendance. Scroll through the delegates to find the people...