{"id":305131,"date":"2026-02-27T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:51:11","slug":"switzerland-q4-gdp-0-1-vs-0-2-q-q-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305131\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland Q4 GDP +0.1% vs +0.2% q\/q expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -0.5%; revised to -0.4%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Swiss economic output bounces back in the final quarter of last year, after a drag in the third quarter. The decline was largely due to a big fall in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, but that has now rebounded (+1.9%) in Q4 2025. Domestic demand conditions (+0.5%) held up and was supportive in the final quarter, helping to push up growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Looking to the overall 2025 picture, Swiss GDP grew by 1.4% on the year. And that marks an improvement from the 1.2% reading in 2024. SECO notes that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">&#8220;Domestic demand supported economic activity, largely driven by solid growth in private consumption. In contrast, foreign trade slowed GDP growth, as exports grew at a below-average<br \/>\nrate while imports rose significantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">General economic conditions look to be holding up for Switzerland, so that at least provides a buffer for the SNB. That as they are having a tough task in dealing with deflationary pressures once again. Swiss inflation is teetering just above the zero mark and having to balance that out against a strong currency is the struggle that the central bank is facing right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">That will be the key theme in the months ahead for Switzerland, especially since EUR\/CHF has already broken the 2025 lows and is keeping just above 0.91 for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior -0.5%; revised to -0.4% Swiss economic output bounces back in the final quarter of last year, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-305131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}