{"id":372743,"date":"2026-03-30T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:32:09","slug":"kof-economic-barometer-march-2026-swiss-economy-takes-a-surprising-turn-for-the-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372743\/","title":{"rendered":"KOF Economic Barometer March 2026: Swiss economy takes a surprising turn for the worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"m-image-and-caption__image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/72c52285-3c1a-47eb-a5d7-e04302eda9d1.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"Global trade is also affected by the high oil price. (archive picture)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      Global trade is also affected by the high oil price. (archive picture)<\/p>\n<p>        Keystone\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">The Swiss economy is losing momentum. The KOF economic barometer fell significantly in March and is now back below the long-term average &#8211; a result that hardly anyone had expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">According to the KOF Economic Barometer, expectations for the Swiss economy deteriorated significantly in March. The leading indicator has fallen well below the long-term average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">The barometer fell by a whopping 7.7 points to 96.1 points, as reported by the KOF Institute at ETH Zurich on Monday. The last time it fell below the long-term average of 100 points was after the tariff shock in August and September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">The renewed drop below the 100-point mark comes as a surprise. According to a survey by the news agency AWP, economists had expected values of 100 to 104 points in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Decline on a broad front<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">According to the KOF Institute, the economic slowdown is taking place across a broad front. Both the production-side and demand-side indicator bundles included in the economic barometer reflected the gloomy outlook. In particular, the indicator bundles for the manufacturing industry and foreign demand had to take a back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-paragraph\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">The KOF Economic Barometer is a so-called leading composite indicator. It is based on a large number of indicators and is intended to show how the Swiss economy will develop in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global trade is also affected by the high oil price. (archive picture) Keystone The Swiss economy is losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-372743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}