The Dax got off to a weak start on Friday. In the first hour of trading, the leading German index lost 1.20 percent to 15,452.03 points. On a weekly basis, it is 1.4 percent in the red.
The Dax got off to a weak start on Friday. In the first hour of trading, the leading German index lost 1.20 percent to 15,452.03 points. On a weekly basis, it is 1.4 percent in the red.
The MDax of the medium-sized values fell by 1.07 percent to 34,895.74 points. The eurozone benchmark index EuroStoxx 50 also fell by 0.8 percent.
For the Asian stock market indices, things went down significantly in the morning. On Wall Street there were slight gains the day before, which were enough for records in the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500. After the hours, however, disappointment spread after the Amazon report. Weaker growth signals from the online giant for the current quarter caused the share price to slide after regular trading. “In the USA, investors seem to be more and more cautious at the moment and prefer to take profits with many companies,” said market expert Andreas Lipkow from Comdirect.
Back in the Dax, the titles of the dialysis provider Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) and its parent company Fresenius lost more than seven and three and a half percent respectively, although the hospital operator and medical group recovered unexpectedly from the stresses of the corona pandemic in the second quarter and therefore his Annual targets raised.
The energy group RWE expects a better result than before in 2021 due to strong trading business in the first half of the year. The papers gained 1.5 percent at the top of the Dax.
In the MDax, the lubricant manufacturer Fuchs Petrolub and the medical technology manufacturer Siemens Healthineers moved into focus with increased forecasts, from which neither shares benefited. Fuchs Petrolub lost 1.8 percent and Siemens Healthineers 2.4 percent.
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