{"id":56056,"date":"2025-02-10T18:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/10\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-despite-early-struggle\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:18:01","slug":"swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-despite-early-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/10\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-despite-early-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Modestly Higher Despite Early Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Despite moving along the flat line till an hour past noon, the Switzerland market closed modestly higher on Monday on selective buying in a few frontline stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The mood remained a bit cautious amid fresh tariff threats by the U.S. President Donald Trump. According to reports, Trump said he will impose new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said it sees no justification for tariffs on exports from the European Union and will react to protect the bloc&#8217;s interests from unjustified measures, noting that imposing tariffs would be &#8220;unlawful and economically counterproductive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the KOF Swiss Economic Institute&#8217;s global economic barometers slightly improved in February, with the coincident barometer rising 0.9 points to 95.2 points and the leading barometer edging up 0.8 points to 103.3 points. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI closed up 34.50 points or 0.27% at 12,627.84. The index, which edged down to a low of 12,587.04 at the start, touched a high of 12,640.23 in the session.<\/p>\n<p>SGS climbed 2.31%. VAT Group gained 1.66% and Partners Group closed nearly 1.5% up. Swiss Life Holding, Kuehne + Nagel and Sandoz Group gained 1.1 to 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Logitech International gained nearly 1%. ABB, Zurich Insurance Group, Schindler Ps, Roche Holding, Holcim and Richemont posted moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>Straumann Holding ended 1.03% down. Alcon, Swatch Group, Givaudan and Adecco closed lower by 0.5 to 0.7.5%. UBS Grup drifted down by about 0.4%. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/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 Modestly Higher Despite Early Struggle<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-02-10 18:18:01<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite moving along the flat line till an hour past noon, the Switzerland market closed modestly higher on Monday on selective buying in a few frontline stocks. The mood remained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56057,"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-56056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56056","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=56056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}