{"id":69444,"date":"2026-02-02T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/02\/swiss-stocks-closed-notably-higher-on-strong-economic-data\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:52:07","slug":"swiss-stocks-closed-notably-higher-on-strong-economic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/02\/swiss-stocks-closed-notably-higher-on-strong-economic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Stocks Closed Notably Higher On Strong Economic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Swiss stocks closed on a strong note on Monday, in line with other <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> in Europe, thanks to encouraging retail sales and manufacturing activity data.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI closed with an impressive gain of 220.85 points or 1.67% at 13,409.11, the day&#8217;s high.<\/p>\n<p>Nestle climbed about 2.85%, Richemont, Logitech International, Amrize, Novartis, Lindt &amp; Spruengli, Galderma Group, Schindler Ps and UBS Group gained 2%-2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Helvetia Baloise Holding, Holcim, Zurich Insurance, SGS, ABB, Sika, Julius Baer, Swiss Life Holding and Roche Holding moved up 1%-2%.<\/p>\n<p>Sonova ended down by about 1.1%. Alcon, VAT Group, Givaudan and Partners Group slipped 0.3%-0.7%.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the Federal Statistical Office showed Swiss retail sales increased at the fastest pace in six months in December. The report said retail sales climbed 1% on a monthly basis in December in real terms, reversing a 0.1% fall in November. <\/p>\n<p>Sales of food, drinks, and tobacco increased 1.3%, while those of non-food products dropped 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>On a yearly basis, retail sales growth accelerated to 2.9% in December from 1.7% in November. That was above the expected increase of 2.5%. Online sales were 10.8% higher, recovering sharply from a 13.1% plunge in November.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland&#8217;s procure.ch and UBS manufacturing PMI rose to 48.8 in January 2026 from an upwardly revised 46.4 in December, signalling a modest easing of pressure on the industrial sector. <\/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 Stocks Closed Notably Higher On Strong Economic Data<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-02 18:52:07<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss stocks closed on a strong note on Monday, in line with other markets in Europe, thanks to encouraging retail sales and manufacturing activity data. The benchmark SMI closed with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69445,"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-69444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69444","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=69444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}