{"id":443869,"date":"2026-02-25T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:36:11","slug":"much-of-world-economy-has-coped-better-than-expected-with-tariffs-snb-chairman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443869\/","title":{"rendered":"Much of world economy has coped better than expected with tariffs, SNB chairman says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">ZURICH, Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. tariffs and uncertainty have weighed \u200con global economic growth, \u200cbut many parts of the economy \u200bhave proved more resilient than expected, Swiss National Bank Chairman Martin Schlegel said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Speaking \u200cin Zurich, \u2060Schlegel said about one in four Swiss companies \u2060surveyed by the central bank have been negatively affected by \u200bthe tariffs. \u200bNearly one \u200bin three firms \u200chad opted not to take any measures in response to the tariffs, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Schlegel also noted that inflationary pressures in \u200cSwitzerland have barely \u200bchanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Swiss inflation has \u200bremained \u200blow at the start \u200cof 2026, with a \u200breading \u200bof 0.1% in January at the bottom end of the \u200bSNB&#8217;s \u200c0-2% target range for annual \u200binflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by John RevillEditing \u200bby Dave Graham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH, Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. tariffs and uncertainty have weighed \u200con global economic growth, \u200cbut many parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,29198,101612,161305,156,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-global-economic-growth","tag-martin-schlegel","tag-swiss-national-bank","tag-tariffs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}