{"id":11906,"date":"2021-07-16T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/16\/swiss-market-ends-on-positive-note-3\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:26:48","slug":"swiss-market-ends-on-positive-note-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/16\/swiss-market-ends-on-positive-note-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends On Positive Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market ended on a positive note on Friday, bucking the largely negative trend seen in Europe, although gains were just modest as worries about surging <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases hurt sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI briefly slipped into negative territory in the final hour, but recovered swiftly to closed modestly higher. The index ended up by 49.71 points or 0.42% at 12,026.50.<\/p>\n<p>Partners Group climbed 1.88%. Swisscom gained 1.35% and Roche Holding ended 1.1% up. Givaudan, Nestle, Novartis, Lonza Group and SGS gained 0.55 to 0.8%, while Alcon ended 0.4% up.<\/p>\n<p>Swatch Group shares ended more than 5% down. Holcim ended 1.4% down. Richemont shares shed about 0.9% after the company said constant-currency sales more than doubled in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stocks in the Swiss Mid Price Index, BB Biotech and Ems Chemie Holding both gained more than 2%. Vifor Pharma, Barry Callebaut, Flughafen Zurich and PSP Swiss Property moved up 1.1 to 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>AMS, Kuehne &amp; Nagel, Julius Baer, Sonova and Logitech shed 1 to 1.7%, while VAT Group and Helvetia both ended nearly 1% down. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Swiss Market Ends On Positive Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-07-16 18:26:48<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market ended on a positive note on Friday, bucking the largely negative trend seen in Europe, although gains were just modest as worries about surging coronavirus cases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}