{"id":8027,"date":"2021-03-15T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/15\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-3\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:30:43","slug":"swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/15\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-higher-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Modestly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market stayed positive right through the session on Monday even as the mood remained somewhat cautious in most of the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> across Europe amid concerns about a slowdown in vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended up 27.40 points or 0.25% at 10,867.33, after moving in a tight range between 10,842.83 and 10,905.19.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of pharmaceuticals firm Roche Holding gained more than 2% after the company said it is offering $24.05 a share for GenMark Diagnostics, a U.S.-based maker of molecular diagnostic tests.<\/p>\n<p>Swisscom and Novartis both ended higher by about 0.75%, while Swiss Life Holding and Nestle gained 0.5% and 0.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>UBS Group declined 1.77%. Richemont, LafargeHolcim and Swatch Group lost around 1.4%, while Credit Suisse, Swiss Re and Partners Group ended lower by 0.6 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mid Price Index, Dufry rallied 4.75%, Sonova gained 3.35% and AMS ended nearly 3% up. BB Biotech, Tecan Group, Ems Chemie Holding, Lindt &amp; Spruengli, Cembra Money Bank and Swiss Prime Site gained 1 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Clariant slid 1.7%. Julius Baer, OC Oerlikon Corp and SIG Combibloc lost 1.3 to 1.5%, while Flughafen Zurich ended nearly 1% down. <\/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 Modestly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-15 18:30:43<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market stayed positive right through the session on Monday even as the mood remained somewhat cautious in most of the markets across Europe amid concerns about a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8027","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\/8027","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=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}