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A Rolex and Gold Bar for Trump Trigger Turmoil in Switzerland

A gold ingot and Rolex clock presented in the Oval Office have sparked a debate over how far Switzerland should go in appeasing a famously combative White House.

Swiss gold.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Switzerland is in a tizzy over an Oval Office meeting last month, when a group of executives gave Donald Trump some very shiny (and valuable) gifts. Bloomberg News Zurich reporter Fabienne Kinzelmann gives us the details. Plus: The Businessweek Jealousy List is live, a Chinese beauty brand dreams big, and the problem with paying for human plasma.

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