{"id":25210,"date":"2026-03-04T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/25210\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:43:09","slug":"swiss-national-banks-willingness-to-intervene-has-risen-vice-chairman-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/25210\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss National Bank&#8217;s willingness to intervene has risen, Vice Chairman says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">ZURICH, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The Swiss National Bank has increased its readiness \u200cto intervene in foreign currency \u200cmarkets following the Swiss franc&#8217;s recent rise in \u200bthe wake of the conflict in the Middle East, SNB Vice Chairman Antoine Martin said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;Our willingness to \u200cintervene, our readiness \u2060to intervene is higher given the recent political events,&#8221; Martin \u2060told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Martin was speaking after the Swiss franc rose to its highest value \u200bagainst the \u200beuro in \u200bmore than a decade \u200cearlier this week, driven by safe-haven inflows triggered by the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The SNB on Monday said it was more willing to intervene \u200cin the foreign currency \u200bmarkets to counter a &#8220;rapid \u200band excessive \u200bappreciation&#8221; of the Swiss franc, \u200ca rare verbal intervention \u200bfrom the \u200bcentral bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The euro edged up 0.2% to a day high of 0.9098 \u200bfrancs \u200cafter Martin made his remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bJohn RevillAdditional reporting by Amanda CooperEditing \u200bby Dave Graham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The Swiss National Bank has increased its readiness \u200cto intervene in foreign currency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15571,14679,15572,41,470,1364,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-25210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-antoine-martin","9":"tag-conflict-in-the-middle-east","10":"tag-foreign-currency","11":"tag-swiss","12":"tag-swiss-franc","13":"tag-swiss-national-bank","14":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116170732530044990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}