{"id":56270,"date":"2025-02-14T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/14\/swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-53\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:00:15","slug":"swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/14\/swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Notably Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market ended notably lower on Friday, after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session, as investors chose to take some profits after recent strong gains.<\/p>\n<p>The mood was cautious amid concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposed reciprocal trade policy on countries that impose tax on U.S. imports.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI closed down 109.19 points or 0.84% at 12,839.87.<\/p>\n<p>Novartis ended nearly 2.5% down. Swisscom and Swatch Group closed lower by 2% and 1.87%, respectively. Nestle closed nearly 1.5% down.<\/p>\n<p>Kuehne + Nagel, Roche Holding, Zurich Insurance Group, Swiss Re, Alcon, Sandoz Group and SGS ended down 0.7 to 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Givaudan climbed nearly 3%. Logitech International and Lindt &amp; Spruengli both gained a little over 2%. SIG Group and Partners Group gained 1.2% and 1.1%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Sika, Julius Baer and Holcim posted modest gains, while VAT Group edged up marginally.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, data from the Federal Statistical Office showed Switzerland&#8217;s producer and import prices declined at a slower pace in January 2025, dropping by 0.3% year-on-year, following a 0.9% decrease in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Further, this was the slowest rate of decline since the current sequence of fall began in May 2023, when prices had fallen the same 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The producer price index showed a flat change in January, while import prices registered a decrease of 0.8%. On a monthly basis, producer and import prices edged up 0.1% in January, as expected, after staying stagnant in December. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Notably Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-02-14 19:00:15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market ended notably lower on Friday, after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session, as investors chose to take some profits after recent strong gains&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56271,"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-56270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56270","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=56270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}