Key legal question
Whether the defendants were liable in tort or reliance-based liability for allegedly faking the conclusion and continued existence of a billion-credit agreement, thereby inducing bond purchases.
Extracted holding
The plaintiff failed to prove that the alleged announcement and maintenance of the billion-credit information was a necessary and legally relevant cause of the bond purchases.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal court's finding that the purchases would likely have been made anyway was binding; the Federal Court saw no substantiated factual error or misapplication of the concept of natural causality. Without natural causality, adequacy need not be examined.