{"id":56483,"date":"2025-02-20T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/20\/swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher-12\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:39:12","slug":"swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/20\/swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Slightly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market closed slightly up on Thursday after a choppy session, as investors largely stayed cautious amid concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff threats, and geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI closed up 9.56 points or 0.07% at 12,808.08, after moving between 12,759.93 and 12,820.88.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich Insurance Group closed higher by 2.37%. The company&#8217;s after-tax net income attributable to shareholders surged 34% year-over-year to $5.81 billion, while insurance revenue rose to $59.51 billion from $56.10 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Swatch Group climbed 3%. Adecco gained about 2%. Lindt &amp; Spruengli ended 1.12% up. VAT Group, Kuehne + Nagel, Richemont, Lonza Group, Partners Group, ABB, Schindler Ps, SIG Group and Sika posted moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>Sonova closed down 2.38%. UBS Group and Straumann Holding both closed lower by about 1.4%. Logitech International, Givaudan, Holcim, Sandoz Group, SGS and Swiss Re also closed weak.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Federal Customs Administration showed Switzerland&#8217;s foreign trade surplus decreased in January from a month earlier as exports fell faster than imports.<\/p>\n<p>The trade surplus declined to CHF 4.0 billion in January from CHF 4.4 billion in December.<\/p>\n<p>In real terms, exports dropped 3.9% monthly, reversing a 5.4% rebound in December. Imports fell 1.9% after rising 4.7% in the prior month.<\/p>\n<p>In nominal terms, both exports and imports contracted by 6.9% and 6.8%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, watch exports rose 4.1% year-on-year in January. Watches made from precious metals, along with bimetallic models, accounted for most of the increase. <\/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 Slightly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-02-20 18:39:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market closed slightly up on Thursday after a choppy session, as investors largely stayed cautious amid concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff threats, and geopolitical tensions. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56484,"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-56483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56483","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=56483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}