The Swiss National Bank releases its preliminary FY 2017 performance results

  • Profit from FX positions - CHF 49bn
  • Profit from gold valuation - CHF 3bn
  • Expects to pay dividend of CHF 15 per share to shareholders
  • To pay government and cantons at least CHF 2bn

The full statement can be found here.

Nothing substantial to impact markets, just a statement on how much Jordan & co are making on the year.

USD/CHF remains sidelined at 0.9776, same goes to EUR/CHF at 1.1693.