{"id":65445,"date":"2025-10-16T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/16\/swiss-market-ends-on-strong-note-32\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:49:30","slug":"swiss-market-ends-on-strong-note-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/16\/swiss-market-ends-on-strong-note-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends On Strong Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Swiss stocks closed on a strong note on Thursday, tracking positive cues from other <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> across Europe, amid rising prospects of another rate cut by the Federal Reserve, and easing political tensions in France. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI started off on a slightly weak note, but recovered swiftly ad then stayed firm right through the day&#8217;s trading session to settle with a gain of 172.50 points or 1.38% at 12,702.08.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle soared 9.3% after the food and beverage giant unveiled plans to cut 16000 jobs globally over two years, aiming to reduce costs and boost sales. <\/p>\n<p>Givaudan gained 2.82%, and Lonza Group climbed by about 2.1%. Geberit, Kuehne + Nagel and Swatch Group gained 1.77%, 1.69% and 1.31%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Alcon, Schindler Ps, Sika, Straumann Holding, Roche Holding and Julius Baer gained 0.4 to 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>VAT Group closed down by 3.4%. Zurich Insurance ended lower by about 3%, while Swiss Re, Galderma Group and Swiss Life Holding lost 1.6 to 2%. <\/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 Strong Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-16 17:49:30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss stocks closed on a strong note on Thursday, tracking positive cues from other markets across Europe, amid rising prospects of another rate cut by the Federal Reserve, and easing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65446,"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-65445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65445","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=65445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}