{"id":68331,"date":"2026-01-05T18:29:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/05\/swiss-market-ends-marginally-down-32\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:29:48","slug":"swiss-market-ends-marginally-down-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/05\/swiss-market-ends-marginally-down-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Marginally Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market settled marginally down on Monday after staying weak right through the day&#8217;s trading, as investors, back to trading after New Year holidays, refrained from picking up stocks despite data showing an increase in retail sales for a third straight month.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended the session at 13,247.32, down 20.16 points or 0.15%. The index touched a low of 13,137.81 and a high of 13,247.36.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle ended nearly 3% down. Logitech International closed lower by 2.5%, while Lindt &amp; Spruengli and Swiss Re both ended lower by nearly 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Givaudan, Galderma Group, Sandoz Group, Novartis and Roche Holding lost 0.8 to 1.25%.<\/p>\n<p>VAT Group soared more than 12%. Julius Baer climbed 5.4% and Partners Group moved up 4.85%, while ABB and UBS Group gained 3.4% and 3.2%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>SGS, Amrize, Swiss Life Holding, Kuehne + Nagel and Helvetia Baloise Holdings ended higher by 1.2 to 2.5%. Straumann Holding, Schindler Ps, Sika, Swisscom, Sonova, Richemont and Holcim also closed on firm note.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Federal Statistical Office showed retail sales in Switzerland climbed 2.3% on a yearly basis in real terms, following October&#8217;s stable growth of 2.2%. The rate of expansion was slower than the expected gain of 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding service stations, total retail sales were 2.4% higher compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sales in the non-food sector posted an accelerated growth of 6.2% versus 4.1% in October. Meanwhile, sales of food, drinks, and tobacco dropped further by 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month, retail sales edged up 0.1% in November after rising 0.2% in the prior month. <\/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 Marginally Down<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-05 18:29:48<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market settled marginally down on Monday after staying weak right through the day&#8217;s trading, as investors, back to trading after New Year holidays, refrained from picking up stocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68332,"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-68331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331","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=68331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}