{"id":59777,"date":"2025-05-16T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/16\/dax-up-0-8-looks-set-to-end-week-on-strong-note\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:55:06","slug":"dax-up-0-8-looks-set-to-end-week-on-strong-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/16\/dax-up-0-8-looks-set-to-end-week-on-strong-note\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Up 0.8%, Looks Set To End Week On Strong Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are up firmly in positive territory on Friday, amid easing trade tensions following the U.S.-China deal earlier in the week, and recent reports about a positive progress in the EU bloc&#8217;s discussions with the U.S. for tariff reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are also assessing the likely interest rate moves by central banks in upcoming meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned in a speech on Thursday that near- zero interest rates are likely to be a thing of the past, and potentially more persistent, supply shocks could goose inflation higher and present a &#8220;difficult challenge for the <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> and for central banks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, Latvian ECB Governing Council member Martins Kazaks indicated market pricing of a 25bps cut at the June 5 meeting is &#8220;relatively appropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX, which looks headed for a weekly gain of over 1.6%, was up 181.27 points or 0.77% at 23,861.74 a little while ago. The index, which climbed to a high of 23,886.88 earlier in the session, is not far behind a record high of 23,911.98 registered on May 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer, the top gainer in the DAX index, is up 2.7%. Rheinmetall is advancing 2.1%, while SAP, Vonovia, Siemens Healthineers and Beiersdorf are gaining 1.5 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Hannover Rueck, Munich RE, Symrise, Allianz, Qiagen and Brenntag are up 1 to 1.4%. Fresenius Medical Care, Deutsche Boerse, MTU Aero Engines and Fresenius are up with moderate gains.<\/p>\n<p>E.ON is declining 3.7%. Heidelberg Materials and Commerzbank are down 2.1% and 2%, respectively. Merck, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Bank, RWE, Adidas and BMW are down 0.4 to 0.8%. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Up 0.8%, Looks Set To End Week On Strong Note<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-16 09:55:06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are up firmly in positive territory on Friday, amid easing trade tensions following the U.S.-China deal earlier in the week, and recent reports about a positive progress in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59778,"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-59777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59777","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=59777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}