{"id":56395,"date":"2025-02-18T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/18\/dax-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:07:18","slug":"dax-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/18\/dax-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are drifting lower Tuesday morning after opening marginally up, as investors continue to monitory the developments on the geopolitical front. <\/p>\n<p>The focus is on U.S. &#8211; Russia talks on Ukraine, and the European leaders&#8217; views on the developments in Ukraine and discussions about the deployment of troops to Ukraine and raising defense spending. <\/p>\n<p>A lack of significant progress in the European leaders&#8217; discussions has rendered the mood quite subdued. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX, which advanced to 22,864.12 in early trades, was down 57.97 points or 0.25% at 22739.74 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas, Sartorius, Zalando, BASF, Puma, Bayer, BMW, Vonovia, Infineon, Fresenius and Brenntag are down 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswage, Fresenis Medical Care, Deutsche Post, Covestro, Siemens, RWE and Beiersdorf are modestly lower.<\/p>\n<p>ThyssenKrupp shares are up 2.5%. Commerzbank is gaining about 1.2%. Rheinmetall, which closed with a strong gain on Monday, is up 1%. Airbus Group is also gaining about 1%. Merck and MTU Aero Engines are up 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The yield on Germany&#8217;s 10-year bond climbed to 2.5%, the highest level in nearly three weeks, amid prospects of increased defense spending and higher bond issuance across the eurozone.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ZEW economic survey results showed a significant improvement in economic sentiment in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The ZEW Economic Sentiment Index in Germany increased to 26 points in February from 10.30 points in January of 2025.  ZEW Current Conditions in Germany increased to -88.50 points in February from -90.40 points in January of 2025. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>DAX Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-02-18 10:07:18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are drifting lower Tuesday morning after opening marginally up, as investors continue to monitory the developments on the geopolitical front. The focus is on U.S. &#8211; Russia talks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/56396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}