{"id":8632,"date":"2021-04-07T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/07\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:04:52","slug":"swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/07\/swiss-market-ends-moderately-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Moderately Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market stayed weak right through the session on Wednesday as spikes in <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases in several parts of Europe and slow pace of vaccination rendered the mood a bit bearish.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended down 54.77 points or 0.49% at 11,128.18. The index touched a high of 11,163.34 and a low of 11,108.33 in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Richemont ended lower by about 1.5% and Novartis shed 1.3%, while Sika, Roche Holding and ABB lost 1 to 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Swatch Group, UBS Group, Alcon, SGS, Givaudan, Lonza Group and Credit Suisse, also ended weak, while LafargeHolcim, Nestle and Swiss Life Holding gained 0.6 to 0.75%.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stocks in the Swiss Mid Price Index, Logitech shed about 2.5%, Kuehne &amp; Nagel, BB Biotech, Ems Chemie Holding and Straumann Holding ended lower by 1.2 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Galenica Sante, Temenos Group and Vifor Pharma gained 1.2 to 1.35%, while Barry Callebaut, Swiss Prime Site, AMS, OC Oerlikon Corp and Cembra Money Bank ended higher by 0.75 to 1%. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Moderately Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-07 18:04:52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market stayed weak right through the session on Wednesday as spikes in coronavirus cases in several parts of Europe and slow pace of vaccination rendered the mood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8632","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\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}