{"id":431229,"date":"2026-06-01T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/swiss-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-first-quarter-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:40:05","slug":"swiss-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-first-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/06\/swiss-economy-posts-solid-growth-in-first-quarter-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss economy posts solid growth in first quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>GDP +0.7% vs +0.6% q\/q expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.1%; revised to +0.2%<\/li>\n<li>GDP (adjusted for sporting events) +0.4% q\/q<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the details, it is the industrial sector that helped to bring up growth in the first quarter of 2026. The sector grew strongly (+1.3%) with manufacturing (+1.5%) in particular being a key component to growth conditions. That said, it was not all good in the industrial sector as chemical and pharmaceutical declined strongly during the quarter (-3.4%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As for the services sector, overall conditions remain relatively subdued. The sector posted mild growth (+0.2%) on the quarter amid positive contributions from transport (+1.9%) and financial services (+1.3%). However, that is largely offset by a decline in the retail sector (-1.3%) with private consumption being flat on the quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Besides that, domestic demand remains weak (+0.1%) while government consumption was the one that helped to bring things up with a above-average showing in Q1 2026 (+0.9%).<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GDP +0.7% vs +0.6% q\/q expected Prior +0.1%; revised to +0.2% GDP (adjusted for sporting events) +0.4% q\/q Prior +0.5% Looking at the details, it is the industrial sector that helped to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}