India, April 18 -- The Switzerland stock market ended lower on Thursday, after scoring gains in the previous three sessions, as profit taking and slowing exports dragged down share prices.
The benchmark SMI ended down 25.38 points, or 0.26%, at 9,571.22, after scaling a low of 9,543.14 and a high of 9,623.13 intraday.
Alcon, the Novartis spin-off, which made sparkling debut early last week, but saw some weak spells subsequently, fell again and ended lower by about 3.3%.
Novartis shed 2.1%. Roche Holding declined 1.1% and Swatch Group ended lower by about 0.8%.
Lonza Group advanced 2.2% by the time trading was halted at the counter ahead of the company's AGM.
LafargeHolcim gained 1.3%. The company announced that the issue price of new s...