FRANKFURT, Germany ? Switzerland's central bank is taking steps to lower the franc's exchange rate, saying the currency is "massively overvalued" and threatening the Swiss economy.
The Swiss National Bank said Wednesday it would lower its target range for interest rates on lending between banks to 0.0-0.25 percent from 0.0-0.75 percent.
Lowering interest rates can help reduce a currency's value against other currencies by lessening demand for investments and assets in that currency.
The bank also said it would "very significantly" increase liquidity into the Swiss franc money market.
The steps were aimed at pulling the franc lower against the dollar and the euro. Switzerland's currency, along with gold, has risen sharply because it's considered a safe haven from the debt and economic woes in Europe and America.
A stronger currency can hurt a country's economy by making it harder to export goods.
The bank said in a strongly-worded statement that "the outlook for the Swiss economy has deteriorated substantially" because of the strong franc.
Following the announcement, the euro spiked 2 percent to 1.1080 francs, while the dollar traded 1.4 percent higher at 0.7763 franc.
"Although today's actions will weaken the fundamental attractiveness of the franc, the SNB will be well aware that it is swimming against the tide and that without a solution to the eurozone sovereign debt crisis it will be difficult to convince investors to dump the franc," said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank International.
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OKLAHOMA CITY ? Even with NBA players locked out by the league, Los Angeles Clippers All-Star Blake Griffin isn't taking any days off.
Griffin hosted the opening day of his first annual basketball camp for kids in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, then squeezed in a private one-hour workout afterward with the hope of improving on his Rookie of the Year season.
Griffin has also been busy with appearances for a growing number of sponsors after his leap over the hood of a car to win the NBA's slam dunk title, and last weekend he was part of his brother's wedding in Tulsa.
"I haven't stopped working out really since May," Griffin said. "It's been every day, sneaking it in whenever I can." Griffin says it's frustrating for him to think that the NBA games may be interrupted after his first season playing in the league. Griffin missed all of the 2009-10 season with a broken kneecap after he had been the No. 1 draft pick out of Oklahoma.
"Now my first three seasons, I could play 82 games," Griffin said. "So, we'll see what happens."
The NBA and its players returned to the bargaining table Monday, but Commissioner David Stern left saying he was no longer optimistic about the process. On Tuesday, the league took two actions against the NBA players association, filing an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board and a lawsuit in federal district court in New York.
Neither team proposed a new collective bargaining agreement during the negotiations Monday.
"Hopefully from here on out, it's a little better," Griffin said, adding: "I think things will start to move a little faster once the season gets closer and closer."
The regular season is scheduled to start on Nov. 1, and training camps typically open about a month before then. That leaves little time to reach a deal between two sides that seem miles apart.
"You just stay ready really, That's really all I can do ? pace myself, stay ready," Griffin said. "I have to take a little time off every now and then to make sure your body's going to be fresh, because you can't be working out for six months straight. It is tough, but at the same time you've got to put in the work."
Griffin led all rookies with 22.5 points and 12.1 rebounds per game last season, becoming the first rookie All-Star since Yao Ming in 2003. He called that first season a "pretty good one, but I'm looking forward to next year already and getting better."
Griffin said he wants to improve his all-around game, particularly his shooting, after gaining the most notoriety for the slam dunk contest.
"I think people recognize me for that a lot more than for a lot of other stuff, and that's fine. That's what happens," he said. "But my whole goal is to be an overall player and to be more than one-dimensional."
For now, at least, Griffin said he isn't joining other NBA stars in seeking opportunities to play overseas if there is an extended lockout. Nets point guard Deron Williams was the first big name to make such a move, signing with a Turkish team.
"I'm not opposed to playing overseas but right now it's not something I'm worried about or putting any thought into it," Griffin said.
While he's back home in Oklahoma City, Griffin will host a four-day basketball camp he says is "structured to really get better and not just play in a bunch of games" ? something he didn't have access to while growing up ? and a charity bowling event Friday night to benefit Stand Up To Cancer and a college scholarship named after Wilson Holloway, a high school teammate who died of Hodgkin's lymphoma earlier this year.
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SEATTLE ? To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Seattle's iconic Space Needle, organizers want to go beyond Earth.
"We went back to 1962 and questioned why the Space Needle was built," said Ron Sevart, President and CEO of the Pacific Northwest landmark. "It was an optimistic time, a forward-looking time, right in the middle of the space race."
The Space Needle ? with its hourglass tower and a top that resembles a flying saucer ? embodied the era.
Inspired, Sevart and his team decided to create a multi-tiered contest to send a member of the public into orbit using a company from the burgeoning private space travel industry.
"The private business of taking people to space is right in front of us, it felt so natural for us to build a contest around that," Sevart said.
To help celebrate the future of space travel, the Space Needle is bringing one of its pioneers.
Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to step on the moon, is expected at Monday's formal contest announcement. He will be joined by Sevart; Eric Anderson, chairman of Space Adventures, a Virginia-based private space travel company; and Richard Garriott, one of a handful of private citizens who have spent time on the International Space Station.
"It's an opportunity for the average person have chance to do something very few people have ever done," said Anderson, whose company has sent seven people to space, hitching rides on Russian rockets.
The winning trip to space would be a suborbital shot, with about 6 minutes of zero gravity, Garriott said. The details will come later. Space Adventure is still developing the vessels that will be used for the excursions. The cost for the grand prize is about $110,000.
"The most impressive takeaway that I had on the International Space Station was seeing Earth from space, it was truly life changing," said Garriott, a computer engineer who has invested in private space travel, and spent 12 days circling Earth.
The contest ? dubbed Space Race 2012 ? will have several stages. First, anyone can sign up to enter at the Space Needle's website starting Monday through December. Sevart is expecting millions of entries. From there, a computer will randomly choose 1,000 people. The chosen entries will then be asked to submit a 1-minute video. Following the video, the public, via a vote, will twiddle down the number of contestants.
A fitness challenge will be set up for the top vote-getters, and to conclude, a panel will make the final selection.
The winner will be announced in April 2012, right at the 50th birthday of the Space Needle's opening.
While Sevart is encouraging everyone to submit entries, he said "space travel might not be for everyone," adding that the person needs to be "both mentally and physical prepared for it."
The Space Needle was built in 1961 as the nation was in the midst of a space race with the Soviet Union. The tower was the marquee showing at the 1962 World's Fair, which featured exhibits of that era's version of the future.
Fifty years later and the U.S. is stepping forward into a new episode in space travel. The last space shuttle to rocket to orbit landed permanently almost two weeks ago. NASA is now looking to private contractors to send astronauts to the ISS while it focuses on deeper space travel.
For Garriott, whose father was an astronaut, a contest like the Space Needle's is another step at making space travel more affordable, within reach of the public. He envisions that soon a trip to the orbit will cost as much as an around-the-world space ticket.
"I think that the biggest thing that people take away from this event, is that people's excitement about space should be reinvigorated," he said. "We're about to enter the barnstorming era of space. It's not just going to be the U.S. or Russian government sending people to space, it's going to be private individuals."
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Space Adventures: http://www.spaceadventures.com
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