ZURICH/BERLIN, June 8 (Reuters) - The Swiss blue-chip SMI
.SSMI was seen opening 0.2% higher at 11,559 points on
Wednesday, according to premarket indications by bank Julius
Baer JBPRE01 .
Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss
stocks on Wednesday:
CREDIT SUISSE CSGN.S
Credit Suisse is likely to experience a group-wide loss in
the second quarter, the bank said on Wednesday, a further blow
to the embattled lender. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2XV0FZ
COMPANY STATEMENTS
* Relief Therapeutics RLFB.S said its collaboration
partner, Acer Therapeutics, has not yet received a decision from
the U.S. FDA for new drug application for Acer-001. RLFB.S
* Helvetia HELN.S said it had issued two senior bond
tranches totalling 400 million Swiss francs. HELN.S
* Aryzta ARYN.S said it was setting an organic growth
target of 4.5%-5.5%, and a goal to reach total revenue of at
least €2 billion at constant pricing by the end of the period as
part of its new mid-term targets. ARYN.S
ECONOMY
The Swiss unemployment rate fell to a non-seasonally
adjusted 2.1% in May from 2.3% in the previous month, the State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs said on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Zurich newsroom and Berlin Speed Desk)
((+41 58 306 7336; zurich.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))
((For Top News in a multimedia Web format on Eikon visit: https://bit.ly/2NDFd6g
FOR RELATED PRICES, NEWS AND OTHER TOPICS, DOUBLE-CLICK ON:
Daily Swiss stock market report in German .SDE
All SMI constituent stocks 0#.SSMI
DJ STOXX index .STOXX
Top 10 STOXX sectors .PGL.STOXXS
Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors .PGL.STOXXES
Swiss mid-cap index .SSMI
Swiss all-share index .SSHI
Swiss market digest .AD.S
Sector overview CH/SECTOR1
All Swiss news CH
Swiss research news CH-RCH
All equity news E
SPEED GUIDES: EQUITY EQUITY/NEWS1 EUR/EQUITY SWITZERLAND REUTERS ))