{"id":70438,"date":"2026-02-27T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/27\/swiss-market-settles-on-bright-note-swiss-re-rises-on-strong-results\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:07:47","slug":"swiss-market-settles-on-bright-note-swiss-re-rises-on-strong-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/27\/swiss-market-settles-on-bright-note-swiss-re-rises-on-strong-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Settles On Bright Note; Swiss Re Rises On Strong Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market&#8217;s benchmark SMI closed on a firm note on Friday after staying positive right through the day&#8217;s trading session, thanks to sustained buying at several counters.<\/p>\n<p>The SMI, which very nearly moved past its record high &#8211; it touched a high of 14,056.85 intraday &#8211; ended with a gain of 100.57 points or 0.72% at 14,014.30.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Re climbed about 3.75%. The re-insurer reported a 47% rise in 2025 net profit at $4.762 million. The company also announced plans to repurchase up to $1.5 billion of shares in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kuehne + Nagel ended up by 2.2%, while Swisscom and Novartis moved up 1.91% and 1.87%, respectively. Novartis announced today that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Avidity Biosciences, Inc. <\/p>\n<p>Nestle, Sika, Givaudan, ABB, Geberit and SGS gained 1%-1.52%. Roche Holding, VAT Group and Lonza Group also ended notably higher.<\/p>\n<p>Richemont and Sandoz Group closed lower by 3.35% and 3.3%, respectively. Partners Group ended 2.03% down, while Holcim settled 1.42% down. Lindt &amp; Spruengli and UBS Group also ended notably lower. <\/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 Settles On Bright Note; Swiss Re Rises On Strong Results<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-27 18:07:47<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market&#8217;s benchmark SMI closed on a firm note on Friday after staying positive right through the day&#8217;s trading session, thanks to sustained buying at several counters. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70439,"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-70438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70438","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=70438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}