{"id":65865,"date":"2025-10-27T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/27\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-24\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:33:31","slug":"swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/27\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market 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 closed on a weak note on Monday, after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session as investors remained hesitant to pick up stocks, choosing to wait for some crucial economic data, and the monetary policy announcements from several central banks.<\/p>\n<p>Easing concerns about U.S.-China trade tensions helped limit the market&#8217;s downside.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended down by 40.59 points or 0.32% at 12,527.59, after moving between 12,446.05 and 12,548.52.<\/p>\n<p>Sika ended down by about 4.25%. Givaudan, Swatch Group, Galderma Group and Lonza Group lost 1.3 to 2%. <\/p>\n<p>Roche Holding ended 1.4% down, after Jefferies cut the stock&#8217;s rating to &#8220;underperform&#8221; and reduced the target price to CHF 230 from CHF 270.<\/p>\n<p>Novartis ended lower by about 0.8%. The drugmaker said it agreed to acquire U.S. biotech firm Avidity Biosciences RNA for about $12 billion in cash.<\/p>\n<p>Alcon, Lindt &amp; Spruengli, Sonova, Schindler Ps, Swisscom and Straumann Holding also ended weak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kuehne + Nagel climbed 1.53%, UBS Group, Logitech International, Zurich Insurance and Holcim gained 1 to 1.2%, while Swiss Life Holding and Sandoz Group ended higher by 0.85% and 0.8%, respectively. <\/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 Modestly Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-27 18:33:31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market closed on a weak note on Monday, after languishing in negative territory right through the day&#8217;s trading session as investors remained hesitant to pick up stocks, choosing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65866,"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-65865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865","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=65865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}