{"id":70081,"date":"2026-02-18T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/18\/swiss-market-extends-its-winning-streak-amrize-soars-on-outlook-buyback-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:59:14","slug":"swiss-market-extends-its-winning-streak-amrize-soars-on-outlook-buyback-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/18\/swiss-market-extends-its-winning-streak-amrize-soars-on-outlook-buyback-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Extends Its Winning Streak; Amrize Soars On Outlook, Buyback Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland market closed modestly higher on Wednesday, extending its winning streak to a fifth straight session. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI, which moved in a narrow range between 13,762.13 and 13,846.05, settled at 13,807.04, gaining 54.20 points or 0.39%.<\/p>\n<p>Amrize shot up by 13.3% after the company raised its 2026 EBITDA outlook, and also announced a $1bn buyback.<\/p>\n<p>Holcim, UBS Group, Kuehne + Nagel and Julius Baer gained 2.6%-3%. Alcon, Partners Group, Galderma Group and ABB closed up by 1%-2%.<\/p>\n<p>Richemont, Geberit, Straumann Holding, Zurich Insurance and VAT Group also closed on a positive note.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Re and Givaudan closed down by about 2% and 1.7%, respectively. Sika ended nearly 1% down, while Novartis, Nestle, Schindler Ps, Sandoz Group, Swisscom and Lonza Group lost 0.6%-0.8%. <\/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 Market Extends Its Winning Streak; Amrize Soars On Outlook, Buyback Announcement<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-18 18:59:14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland market closed modestly higher on Wednesday, extending its winning streak to a fifth straight session. The benchmark SMI, which moved in a narrow range between 13,762.13 and 13,846.05,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70081","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=70081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}