{"id":7788,"date":"2021-03-04T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/04\/swiss-market-ends-lower-again\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:04:36","slug":"swiss-market-ends-lower-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/04\/swiss-market-ends-lower-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Lower Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market ended weak on Thursday, edging down for a second straight day, as concerns over valuations and higher yields on long-term Treasury Notes weighed on stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI, which stayed in negative territory right through the session, ended with a loss of 21.79 points or 0.2% at 10,750.09. <\/p>\n<p>Lonza Group ended 3.6% down, Novartis shed about 3.2%, Richemont lost 2.5%, Partners Group slid 2.2% and Swiss Life Holding declined 1.6%. UBS Group and Swatch Group also ended notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Among the gainers, Zurich Insurance Group, Roche Holding and Nestle moved up 1.8%, 1.7% and 1.6%, respectively. LafargeHolcim and Swisscom both ended nearly 1% up. Givaudan and ABB advanced 0.84% and 0.74%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mid Price Index, VAT Group and Logitech lost 6.9% and 6.2%, respectively. AMS declined 4.4%, while OC Oerlikon Corp and Tecan Group lost 3% and 2.9%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Baer, Straumann Holding, Vifor Pharma and Sonova ended lower by 1.7 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Kuehne &amp; Nagel moved up 3.3%, extending gains from previous session. Swiss Prime Site, Temenos Group and Adecco gained 1.9 to 2.2%, while Flughan Zurich gained about 1%. <\/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 Ends Lower Again<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-04 19:04:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market ended weak on Thursday, edging down for a second straight day, as concerns over valuations and higher yields on long-term Treasury Notes weighed on stocks. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7788","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\/7788","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=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}