Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on Jan 29

VP Bank AG

29/01/2016 07:02

ZURICH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Swiss blue-chip SMI  .SSMI  
was seen opening 0.7 percent higher at 8211.6 points on Friday, 
according to premarket indications by bank Julius Baer 
 JBPRE01 . 
    Here are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss 
stocks:  
     
    KUONI  KUNN.S   
The Swiss travel group said on Thursday Sweden's EQT was its 
preferred suitor among several potential bidders wooing the 
group and final negotiations were now in progress.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N15C5MR 
    For more, click on  KUNN.S     
     
    STRAUMANN   STMN.S  
    Medical device makers Dentsply International Inc and 
Straumann Holding AG are among the companies considering bids to 
acquire Israeli dental business MIS Implants Technologies Ltd, 
Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.  http://bloom.bg/1JIN37X 
     STMN.S  
       
    COMPANY STATEMENTS  CPR-CH  
    * Rieter  RIEN.S  said adjusted for currency effects and the 
sale of the Schaltag group, sales and order intake figures for 
2015 fell 8 percent and 28 percent respectively. It expected an 
EBIT margin of 7.0 percent and a net profit of 4.8 percent of 
sales of 1.04 billion Swiss francs ($1.02 billion) for 2015.  
     
    * VP Bank  VPB.S  reported 2015 group net profit of around 
64 million francs and assets under management of 34.8 billion 
     
    * BFW Liegenschaften  BLIN.S  reported preliminary EBIT of 
19.5 million francs, up from 14.1 million a year ago 
     
    * HBM Healthcare Investments  HBMN.S  reported nine-month 
consolidated profit of 101 million francs 
     
    * Starrag Group Holding AG  STGN.S  said new orders fell 18 
percent in 2015 to 333 million Swiss francs, Sales fell 7.5 
percent to 364 million. Order backlog at the end of the fiscal 
year amounted to 238 million francs 
     
    ECONOMY  M-CH  
    * Swiss KOF indicator due at 0800 GMT. Analysts polled by 
Reuters expect it to fall to 96.0 points in January from 96.6 
points in the previous month.  CHKOFL=ECI   ECONCH  
 
($1 = 1.0174 Swiss francs) 
 
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