{"id":68467,"date":"2026-01-08T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/swiss-market-settles-modestly-higher-7\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:45:43","slug":"swiss-market-settles-modestly-higher-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/swiss-market-settles-modestly-higher-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Settles Modestly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market ended modestly higher on Thursday despite spending much of the day&#8217;s trading session in negative territory. Strong buying at select counters in the final hour of the session helped lift the benchmark SMI to a positive close.<\/p>\n<p>The SMI, which dropped to 13,274.91 about a couple of hours past noon, settled at 13,350.82, gaining 26.79 points or 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Richemont climbed about 3.7% with most of the buying happening in the final hour. The Richemont counter clocked a volume of about 1.08 million shares today.<\/p>\n<p>UBS Group and Givaudan both gained nearly 1.4%. Lindt &amp; Spruengli, Swiss Re, Swiss Life Holding, Holcim, Zurich Insurance, Sonova, Lonza Group and Helvetia Baloise Holding gained 0.4 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Logitech International tumbled more than 5%. ABB ended 3.1% down, Partners Group drifted down by 2.86%, while VAT Group and Kuehne + Nagel lost 2.5% and 2.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Galderma Group closed lower by 1.2%, while Julius Baer, Sika and SGS ended with modest losses.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Federal Statistical Office showed Switzerland&#8217;s consumer prices increased slightly at the end of the year, rising by 0.1% on a yearly basis in December, following a flat change in the previous month. Prices were expected to fall by 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>On a monthly basis, consumer prices remained flat versus a 0.2% fall in November.<\/p>\n<p>The inflation rate for the whole year 2025 was 0.2% compared to 1.1% in 2024, the agency said. <\/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 Settles Modestly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-08 18:45:43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market ended modestly higher on Thursday despite spending much of the day&#8217;s trading session in negative territory. Strong buying at select counters in the final hour of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68468,"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-68467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467","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=68467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}