{"id":68865,"date":"2026-01-19T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/19\/swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-59\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:33:33","slug":"swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/19\/swiss-market-ends-notably-lower-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Notably Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market ended notably lower on Monday, in line with most of the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> across Europe, as concerns about geopolitical tensions and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s new tariffs threat rendered the mood bearish.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitical tensions escalated after U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his plan to acquire Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said NATO had warned Denmark for years about the &#8220;Russian threat&#8221; to Greenland and claimed Copenhagen had failed to act. &#8220;Now it is time, and it will be done!!!&#8221; Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform ahead of this week&#8217;s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. President&#8217;s announcement of a 10% tariff on several EU countries from next month, which raises the tariff on all imports to US to 25%, and reports that EU is considering retaliatory move against the U.S. weighed on global stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss benchmark SMI ended with a loss of 136.55 points or 1.02% at 13,277.04. The index, which stayed weak right through the day, touched a low of 13,242.78.<\/p>\n<p>Among SMI components, only Swisscom (up 1.18%), Lindt &amp; Spruengli (up 0.45%) and Helvetia Baloise Holding (up 0.3%) managed to close on the positive side.<\/p>\n<p>Alcon ended down by 4.35%. Kuehne + Nagel drifted down 3.17%, while Galderma Group, Sonova, Lonza Group, Richemont, Amrize, VAT Group, Straumann Holding and ABB lost 2 to 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Partners Group ended nearly 2% down. Julius Baer, Logitech International, Givaudan, UBS Group and Schindler Ps also ended notably lower. <\/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 Notably Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-19 18:33:33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market ended notably lower on Monday, in line with most of the markets across Europe, as concerns about geopolitical tensions and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s new tariffs threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68866,"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-68865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68865","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=68865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}