{"id":9127,"date":"2021-04-23T18:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/23\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-after-lackluster-session\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:33:27","slug":"swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-after-lackluster-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/23\/swiss-market-ends-modestly-lower-after-lackluster-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Modestly Lower After Lackluster Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market ended modestly lower on Friday, as traders, looking for direction, largely stayed cautious.<\/p>\n<p>The continuous surge in <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases in major Asian countries India and Japan, and possibility of fresh restrictions on movements raised concerns about the pace of economic rebound.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI ended with a loss of 24.36 points or 0.22% at 11,200.54. The index touched a high of 11,217.89 and a low of 11,130.31 in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Roche Holding and Lonza Group ended lower by about 1.1% and 1%, respectively. Novartis, Swisscom, Nestle and Swiss Re lost 0.3 to 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Credit Suisse gained about 2.25%, rebounding well after previous session&#8217;s drop. Swatch Group gained 1.8%, while Sika and Geberit ended higher by 1.17% and 0.91%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mid Price Index, Galenica Sante declined 1.25%. Flughafen Zurich, Swiss Prime Site, Tecan Group, Vifor Pharma, Adecco and Temenos Group ended lower by 0.5 to 0.65%.<\/p>\n<p>OC Oerlikon Corp gained 3.75%. SIG Combibloc, Kuehne &amp; Nagel, Logitech and VAT Group moved up 1.2 to 1.6%. <\/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 Modestly Lower After Lackluster Session<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-23 18:33:27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market ended modestly lower on Friday, as traders, looking for direction, largely stayed cautious. The continuous surge in coronavirus cases in major Asian countries India and Japan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9127","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\/9127","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=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}