{"id":59255,"date":"2025-05-02T17:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/02\/swiss-market-ends-on-bright-note-16\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:36:58","slug":"swiss-market-ends-on-bright-note-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/02\/swiss-market-ends-on-bright-note-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends On Bright Note"},"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 strong note on Friday, mirroring the trend in <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> across Europe and elsewhere, as worries about trade tensions eased after China stated its willingness to hold talks with the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI closed up 136.81 points or 1.13% at 12,253.79, off the day&#8217;s high of 12,282.55.<\/p>\n<p>ABB, the top gainer in the SMI index, closed 4.63% up. Straumann Holding, Logitech International and Julius Baer gained 3.2 to 3.78%.<\/p>\n<p>Sandoz Group gained about 2.7% following a rating upgrade by RBC Capital Markets. Holcim, Geberit, Partners Group, Lindt &amp; Spruengli, Alcon, Lonza Group, VAT Group, Sika, SIG Group and UBS Group ended higher by 1.6 to 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Roche Holding, SGS, Givaudan, Swiss Life Holding, Sonova, Adecco and Kuehne + Nagel also posted impressive gains.<\/p>\n<p>Schindler Ps closed down 1.6%, while Swisscom and Nestle ended marginally down.<\/p>\n<p>In economics, a report from procuer ch &amp; UBS said, the Swiss procure.ch. Manufacturing PMI dropped to 45.8 in April from 48.9 in March. The April reading was a nine-month low. <\/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 On Bright Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-02 17:36:58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market closed on a strong note on Friday, mirroring the trend in markets across Europe and elsewhere, as worries about trade tensions eased after China stated its willingness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59256,"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-59255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59255","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=59255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}