Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on Sept 5

ZURICH, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks Friday:

UBS (UBSN.VX)

Swiss bank UBS, rocked by more than $44 billion in credit write-downs during the past year, said on Thursday it hired a top Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) executive as its new global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities trading.

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CLARIANT (CLN.VX)

Swiss speciality chemicals company Clariant has named Hariolf Kottmann as new chief executive, effective Oct 1, 2008, replacing Jan Secher.

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CREDIT SUISSE (CSGN.VX)

An indicted former Credit Suisse broker was in U.S. custody on Thursday to face charges over deceptive sales of subprime-related auction-rate debt, the FBI said.

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COMPANY STATEMENTS [CNR-CH]

* EFG International (EFGN.S) says completes the acquisition of Stratcap Securities India [EFGN.S]

* Esmertec ESMN.S reports 27.6 million Jbed shipments for mobile & multimedia devices and strong development of its mobile operator activities with 146 million mobile subscribers [ESMN.S]

* u-blox (UBXN.S) says sales in the first half of the year 2008 saw a total growth of 2.3 percent over the first six months of 2007 to 40.3 million Swiss francs [UBXN.S]

* Valartis (VLRT.S) says as part of the expansion of its private banking and asset management activities, Valartis Group AG has acquired Anglo Irish Bank (Austria) AG [VLRT.S]

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