{"id":67847,"date":"2025-12-18T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/18\/swiss-market-settles-on-firm-note-4\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:22:35","slug":"swiss-market-settles-on-firm-note-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/18\/swiss-market-settles-on-firm-note-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Settles On Firm Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After a slightly weak start and a subsequent recovery that resulted in a spell marginally above the flat line till about a couple of hours past noon, the Switzerland market&#8217;s benchmark SMI gained in strength and ended the session on a firm note on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Investors digested the rate decisions from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, and data showing a smaller-than-expected increase in U.S. consumer prices in the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB left its rates unchanged, while the BoE lowered its interest rate by 25 basis points.<\/p>\n<p>The SMI, which edged down 5o 12,998.22 in early trades, settled with a gain of 107.46 points or 0.82% at 13,136.08, the day&#8217;s high.<\/p>\n<p>Partners Group climbed more than 4%. VAT Group, Julius Baer and UBS Group moved up 2.73%, 2.52% and 2.49%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Amrize gained about 2.1%. Holcim closed with a gain of 1.81%, while Galderma Group, Sika, ABB, Swatch Group, SGS, Lonza Group, Sandoz Group and Lindt &amp; Spruengli moved up 1 to 1.55%.<\/p>\n<p>Straumann Holding, Novartis and Zurich Insurance Group closed weak.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Federal Customs Administration showed Switzerland&#8217;s foreign trade surplus increased in November as exports rose amid a fall in imports.<\/p>\n<p>The trade surplus rose to CHF 3.0 billion in November from CHF 2.5 billion in October. In nominal terms, exports climbed 1.6% over the month, reversing a 0.5% decrease in October. Imports fell 0.8% versus a 0.6% rise a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The export growth was mostly driven by the 35% surge in outflows of vehicles. Meanwhile, the country imported 6.4% fewer chemical and pharmaceutical products compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, watch exports declined 7.3% annually in November. <\/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 Market Settles On Firm Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-18 18:22:35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a slightly weak start and a subsequent recovery that resulted in a spell marginally above the flat line till about a couple of hours past noon, the Switzerland market&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67848,"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-67847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847","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=67847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}