{"id":66271,"date":"2025-11-06T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/11\/06\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower-43\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:04:25","slug":"swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/11\/06\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Moderately Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market closed moderately lower on Thursday after struggling for support right through the session. Investors reacted to earnings announcements, and the nation&#8217;s employment data.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI settled with a loss of 64.67 points or 0.52% at 12,298.86.<\/p>\n<p>Amrize ended down 3.64%. ABB, Partners Group, Swatch Group and Sonova lost 1.6 to 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Holcim, SGS, VAT Group, Richemon, UBS Group, Lonza Group and Swiss Re ended lower by 1 to 1.4%. Alcon and Straumann Holding also closed notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Swisscom climbed about 3.25%. Galderman Group gained 1.1%. Geberit and Logitech International ended higher by 0.84% and 0.5%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Watches Of Switzerland Group shares gained more than 5% on strong first-half results. The company reported revenue of \u00a3845 million for the first-quarter, up 10% at constant currency compared to analyst expectations of \u00a3825 million.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, or SECO, said Switzerland&#8217;s unemployment rate increased slightly in October to the highest level in eight months.<\/p>\n<p>The unadjusted unemployment rate came in at 2.9% in October, up from 2.8% in September. Moreover, a similar rate was last seen in February. In the corresponding month last year, the jobless rate was 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The youth unemployment rate, which is applied to the 15-24 age group, dropped to 3.1% from 3.2%. <\/p>\n<p>Data also showed that the seasonally adjusted jobless rate remained stable at 3%. <\/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 Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-11-06 18:04:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market closed moderately lower on Thursday after struggling for support right through the session. Investors reacted to earnings announcements, and the nation&#8217;s employment data. The benchmark SMI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66272,"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-66271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66271","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=66271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}