India, July 15 -- Despite struggling for direction till a little past mid-afternoon, the Switzerland market closed on a firm note on Wednesday thanks to some strong buying at a few frontline counters in the last couple of hours of the session.
The benchmark SMI ended up by 65.54 points or 0.46% at 14,307.31. The index, which dropped to 14,141.15 in early trades, hit a high of 14,322.08 in the final hour.
Richemont climbed 6.7% after reporting first quarter Group sales at 6.3 billion euros, up by 20% at constant exchange rates and by 17% at actual exchange rates.
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