Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on Sept. 24
24/09/2018 05:55
ZURICH/BERLIN, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The Swiss blue-chip SMI
.SSMI was seen opening 0.2 percent lower at 8,980 points on
Monday, according to premarket indications by bank Julius Baer
JBPRE01 .
Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss
stocks:
ROCHE ROG.S
The Swiss drugmaker said on Monday it was ready to sell a
blood test around the world that can identify common cancer gene
mutations from a patient's blood, as it deepens its bet that
treatment will be increasingly tailored to the individual
characteristics of a person's tumour.
For more, click on ROG.S
ADECCO GROUP ADEN.S
Chief Executive Alain Dehaze tells Swiss newspaper Finanz
und Wirtschaft he does not expect weak conditions in Europe to
improve soon after the staffing group's revenue growth slowed to
a crawl in September urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1W80DD
NESTLE NESN.S
German consumer goods group Henkel HNKG_p.DE is scanning
the market for takeovers, its chief financial officer told a
paper, declining to say whether it was looking at Nestle's skin
health unit that was put up for sale last week. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1W80DY
NOVARTIS NOVN.S
The Swiss pharma company plans to file for approval of
Lucentis to treat a rare, blindness-causing eye disease in
premature infants outside the United States, saying while the
medicine narrowly missed its goal of proving significantly
superior to laser surgery the results were still clinically
relevant. NOVN.S
SWISS RE SRENH.S
The Swiss reinsurer has named Allianz ALVG.DE executive
Andreas Berger head of its Corporate Solutions business and
member of the group executive committee as of April 1, 2019.
urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1W70UR
SWISS-EU TIES
The European Union heaped more pressure on Switzerland to
clinch a new bilateral treaty cementing ties, threatening to cut
off cross-border stock trading by year's end if no deal emerges.
European Commissioner Johannes Hahn, who has been liaising with
the Swiss foreign minister, told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung
newspaper that time was running out to clinch an accord that
Brussels has been seeking for a decade. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1W80B4
REFERENDUMS
Swiss voters decisively rejected more help for farmers in
two referendums on Sunday, heeding the government's warnings
that the measures would send food prices rocketing and hurt the
economy. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1W90F1
COMPANY STATEMENTS
* Asmallworld AG ASWN.S said German asset manager
Hansainvest has increased its stake to 10.2 percent. ASWN.S
* HBM Healthcare Investments HBMN.S said the initial
public offering of Y-mAbs Therapeutics YMAB.O was successful,
raising a total of $96 million. HBMN.S
* Zehnder Group ZEHN.S appointed Matthias Huenerwadel to
take over as chief executive officer on Jan. 1, 2019. ZEHN.S
ECONOMY M-CH
* Swiss National Bank releases latest sight deposits at 0800
GMT.
* Separately, Fitch affirmed Switzerland's credit rating at
"AAA", with a stable outlook. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1W70OQ
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