{"id":9874,"date":"2021-05-18T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/18\/swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:31:27","slug":"swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/18\/swiss-market-ends-slightly-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Market Ends Slightly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The Switzerland stock market ended slightly higher on Tuesday after moving along the flat line almost the entire session as investors looked for direction after recent gains.<\/p>\n<p>The market opened on a firm note, and after edging up a bit subsequently, pared its gains and stayed in a very narrow range till the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark SMI, which advanced to 11,205.69 in early trades, ended with a small gain of 6.38 points or 0.06% at 11,141.75, about 25 points off the session&#8217;s low of 11,116.30.<\/p>\n<p>Richemont and Swatch Group ended stronger by 1.3% and 1.2%, respectively. Partners Group, LafargeHolcim, Geberit, Roche Holding, Swisscom and UBS Group gained 0.4 to 0.9%, while Sika ended 0.25% up.<\/p>\n<p>Novartis, Zurich Insurance Group, Alcon, Lonza Group and Swiss Re shed 0.3 to 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Sonova shares soared 11.5% after the hearing aids maker said it expects strong growth in 2021, thanks to a market recovery after the <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Adecco ended nearly 2% up, while Schindler Holding, Kuehne &amp; Nagel, Logitech and Straumann Holding gained 1.5 to 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Georg Fischer, SIG Combibloc, PSP Swiss Property, Swiss Prime Site, VAT Group and Schindler Ps advanced 1 to 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>AMS shed about 1.7% and Helvetia ended 1.25% down. Lindt &amp; Spruengli and BB Biotech also ended notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, vaccination roll-outs in Switzerland continues to accelerate, and over 14% of the population are said to have been fully vaccinated. Reports say that between 60,000 &#8211; 90,000 jabs are being administered per day. <\/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 Slightly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-18 18:31:27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switzerland stock market ended slightly higher on Tuesday after moving along the flat line almost the entire session as investors looked for direction after recent gains. The market opened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9875,"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-9874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874","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=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}