{"id":57012,"date":"2025-03-05T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/05\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-higher-13\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:47:26","slug":"swiss-market-ends-moderately-higher-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/05\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-higher-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Moderately Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market closed on a firm note on Wednesday with investors picking up stocks amid hopes the U.S. will reduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico. German leaders&#8217; decision to increase defense and infrastructure spending contributed as well to the improved sentiment in the market.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI, which climbed to 13,161.90 intraday, closed up 106.01 points or 0.82% at 13,112.75.<\/p>\n<p>Adecco rallied nearly 8.5%. Sika surged nearly 8% and VAT Group gained 7.1%. Geberit climbed 6.8% and Holcim gained 6%.<\/p>\n<p>ABB, Julius Baer, UBS Group, Logitech International and Partners Group advanced 2.3 to 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Re, Straumann Holding, Alcon, Lonza Group, Sonova, Kuehne + Nagel, Swiss Life Holding and Novartis gained 0.6 to 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Lindt &amp; Spruengli and Givaudan ended down 3.8% and 3.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle declined 1.83% and Swisscom ended 0.58% down. Roche Holding and Swatch Group closed marginally down.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Swiss Federal Statistical Office said the annual inflation rate in Switzerland eased slightly to 0.3% in February 2025, down from 0.4% in January. This marks the lowest level since April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On a monthly basis, the CPI rose by 0.6% in February, the first increase in nine months and the fastest pace since February 2024. <\/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 Moderately Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-05 18:47:26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market closed on a firm note on Wednesday with investors picking up stocks amid hopes the U.S. will reduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico. German leaders&#8217; decision to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57013,"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-57012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57012","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=57012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}