{"id":59951,"date":"2025-05-21T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/21\/swiss-markets-ends-modestly-lower\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:16:16","slug":"swiss-markets-ends-modestly-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/21\/swiss-markets-ends-modestly-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Markets Ends Modestly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market ended lower on Wednesday after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session, as concerns about trade and geopolitical uncertainty rendered the mood cautious, prompting investors to refrain from making significant moves.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended lower by 27.67 points or 0.22% at 12.380.36, well off the day&#8217;s low of 12,292.19.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Baer ended down 4.85% after saying it has been hit with another large loan loss. The lender reported a 130 million Swiss franc ($156.4 million) charge from a credit portfolio review.<\/p>\n<p>Adecco and Sika closed lower by 1.83% and 1.74%, respectively. Sonova, UBS Group, Alcon, Swatch Group, Richemont, Swiss Re and Straumann Holding lost 1 to 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Geberit, SGS, Holcim and ABB closed modestly lower.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Life Holding climbed 1.57%. Lindt &amp; Spruengli ended up 1.02%, and Sandoz Group closed 0.72% up, while Nestle, Novartis and Logitech International posted modest gains. <\/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 Markets Ends Modestly Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-21 17:16:16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market ended lower on Wednesday after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session, as concerns about trade and geopolitical uncertainty rendered the mood cautious, prompting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59952,"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-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","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=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}