{"id":68512,"date":"2026-01-09T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/09\/swiss-market-ends-at-new-record-high\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:18:52","slug":"swiss-market-ends-at-new-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/09\/swiss-market-ends-at-new-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends At New Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After a flat start and a subsequent modest upmove, the Switzerland market struggled a bit around mid morning on Friday, but recovered swiftly and then stayed firm right till the end the day&#8217;s trading thanks to sustained buying at several frontline counters.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI settled with a gain of 71.00 points or 0.53% at 13,421.82, a new record high.<\/p>\n<p>Amrize, up 3.13%, was the top gainer in the SMI index. VAT Group gained 2.4%, while Partners Group, Kuehne + Nagel, ABB, Sika and Nestle gained 1.4 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Logitech International, Richemont, Galderma Group, Holcim and SGS also closed notably higher. Givaudan, UBS Group, Roche Holding and  Geberit posted moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich Insurance closed nearly 2% down. Swiss Life Holding drifted down by 1.72%, while Alcon and Swiss Re lost 1.33% and 1.2%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, or SECO, showed Switzerland&#8217;s unemployment rate increased in December to the highest level in just over four-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n<p>The unadjusted unemployment rate came in at 3.1% in December, up from 2.9% in November, the data showed. <\/p>\n<p>In the corresponding month last year, the jobless rate was 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Data showed that the seasonally adjusted jobless rate also remained stable at 3% as expected. <\/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 At New Record High<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-09 18:18:52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a flat start and a subsequent modest upmove, the Switzerland market struggled a bit around mid morning on Friday, but recovered swiftly and then stayed firm right till the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68513,"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-68512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68512","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=68512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}