India, Aug. 14 -- The Switzerland market recovered after a flat start on Thursday, and after staying positive till well past noon, suffered a setback but regained some strength to eventually end the day's session modestly higher.

The benchmark SMI climbed to 12,026.48 around mid morning, touched a low of 11,952.94 by mid afternoon, but recovered to settle with a gain of 22.76 points or 0.19% at 12,001.61.

Schindler Ps and Zurich Insurance gained 1.52% and 1.41%, respectively. Novartis and Swiss Life Holding climbed by about 1.1% and 1%, respectively.

UBS Group, Amrize, Richemont and ABB closed modestly higher.

Swiss Re closed down 3.45%. Partners Group and Straumann Holding ended lower by about 1.7% from previous closing levels.

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