{"id":62104,"date":"2025-07-18T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/18\/dax-down-marginally-in-cautious-trade-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:16:30","slug":"dax-down-marginally-in-cautious-trade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/18\/dax-down-marginally-in-cautious-trade-3\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Down Marginally 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 turning in a mixed performance on Friday with investors mostly focusing on earnings and other corporate news, in addition to closely following the developments on the trade front, and digesting regional economic data.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX, which climbed to 22,496.19 earlier in the session, was down 22.50 points or 0.09% at 24,344.97 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>Siemens Energy is down by about 1.4%. Fresenius, Fresenius Medical Care, Heidelberg Materials, Vonovia, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens Healthineers and Merck are down 0.3 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Salzgitter AG shares are tanking more than 17% after the steel company cut its full-year guidance in the wake of a weak second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Henkel is rising 1.35%. Zalando, Infineon Technologies, Deutsche Post, Brenntag, RWE and Symrise are up 0.4 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>BASF is up nearly 1% after it signed a 10-year natural gas supply agreement with Equinor.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Destatis showed Germany&#8217;s producer prices declined for the fourth straight month in June on lower energy prices. The producer price index dropped 1.3% year-on-year in June, faster than the 1.2% fall in May. This was the fourth consecutive decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month, producer prices were up 0.1% in June.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding energy prices, producer prices were 1.3% higher than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Eurozone construction output declined at the fastest pace in nearly two-and-a-half years in May after recovering sharply in the previous month, first estimates from Eurostat revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Production in construction declined 1.7% on a monthly basis in May, reversing an upwardly revised 4.3% growth in April. Moreover, this was the quickest downturn since December 2022, when output had fallen 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, the growth in construction output moderated to 2.9% from 4.7% in April.<\/p>\n<p>Construction output in the EU27 declined 1.3% monthly, while it grew 2.7% annually in May. <\/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 Down Marginally In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-18 11:16:30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are turning in a mixed performance on Friday with investors mostly focusing on earnings and other corporate news, in addition to closely following the developments on the trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62105,"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-62104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62104","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=62104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/62105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}