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What more can the SNB do?

The Swiss National Bank has not exhausted all options to stem the franc’s appreciation and might yet try capital controls or direct intervention in currency markets. But internationally co-ordinated intervention would probably be necessary to make a real difference and this still seems unlikely.

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