Chart of the week: Switzerland easily shoulders the strong franc

Switzerland has gone from strength to strength in spite of its rising currency.

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Switzerland's exports are worth over two-thirds of GDP. So when the Swiss central bank gave up holding down the value of the Swiss franc against the euro in January, exports and growth looked set to suffer. Yet according to one think tank, exports should climb by 1.5% in 2015. How?

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