Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on April 5

Centiel AG

05/04/2018 07:08

ZURICH, April 5 (Reuters) - The Swiss blue-chip SMI  .SSMI 
was seen opening 1 percent higher at 8,640 points on Thursday,
according to premarket indications by bank Julius Baer
 JBPRE01 .
    Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss
stocks:
      
    Spanish police have arrested Herve Falciani, a former
employee of HSBC's  HSBA.L  Swiss private bank who was convicted
of industrial espionage after leaking clients' tax information.
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     Swiss-Israeli technology firm Sirin Labs said that FIH
Mobile Ltd  2038.HK , a subsidiary of the world's largest
contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn, will manufacture its
Finney blockchain smartphone, which is designed to securely
store and use digital currencies such as bitcoin in fee-less
transactions.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1RH5WH
    
    CLARIANT  CLN.S 
    Swiss specialty chemicals maker Clariant  CLN.S  said on
Thursday it expected North America to become its second-largest
market with sales of about $2 billion by 2021.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1RI012
    
    SYNGENTA
    Chemchina's  CNNCC.UL  Syngenta has mandated banks BNP
Paribas  BNPP.PA , Citi  C.N , Credit Suisse  CSGN.S  and HSBC
 HSBA.L  to arrange fixed income meetings as it looks to raise
up to $4.8 billion through the issuance of senior bonds and a
potential banking loan.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1RI00Y
    
    COMPANY STATEMENTS  CPR-CH 
    * Orascom Development  ODHN.S  reduced its 2017 loss to 41.1
million francs as revenues grew 2.9 percent that year.
    * Wisekey  WIHN.S  is funding a new cryptocurrency Wisecoin
through an upcoming initial coin offering, hoping to raise
$50-$100 million through the ICO with pre-sales beginning in the
third quarter.  WIHN.S 
    * Santhera Pharmaceuticals  SANN.S  said the first clinical
trial with omigapil in patients with two forms of congenital
muscular dystrophy (CMD) met its primary objective to establish
a favourable pharmacokinetic profile of omigapil and
demonstrated that the study drug was safe and well tolerated in
children and adolescents with CMD.  SANN.S  
    * Hochdorf Holding  HOCN.S  more than doubled net profit in
2017 to 40.8 million francs.  HOCN.S 
    * SGS  SGSN.S  said it acquired Oleotest in Belgium, a
provider of chemical testing services in food, feed and
agricultural commodities with 2017 revenues of approximately 1.5
million euros.  SGSN.S 
    * EEII AG  EIC.S  saw profit of 78,405 francs in 2017 versus
14,108 francs the year before.  EIC.S  
    
    ECONOMY  M-CH 
    March inflation data due at 0715 GMT. Analysts polled by
Reuters expect year-on-year rise of 0.7 percent versus 0.6
percent in February.
    
    Swiss National Bank Governing Board member Andrea Maechler
addresses SNB money market event at 1600 GMT
    

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