{"id":63486,"date":"2025-08-26T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/26\/dax-extending-recent-weakness\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:33:02","slug":"dax-extending-recent-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/26\/dax-extending-recent-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Extending Recent Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are down in negative territory on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session, due to geopolitical concerns and uncertainty about tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>French political risks also appear to be keeping investors on edge. French bonds tumbled as Prime Minister Francois Bayrou called a confidence vote for Sept. 8 over his plans for sweeping budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from France&#8217;s main opposition parties said they would not back the government, raising the risk of French political instability.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the U.S., President Donald Trump took the unprecedented action of removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, raising concerns over the Federal Reserve&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s benchmark DAX was down 75.93 points or 0.31% at 24,185.66 a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>Commerzbank is down nearly 6% following a rating downgrade by Bank of America. The stock has been downgraded to &#8220;underperform&#8221; as the analyst feels the valuation is exaggerated and sees no upside potential from the current level.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Bank is down nealry 2%, while Deutsche Post, Rheinmetall and Hannover Rueck are lower by 1.3 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Allianz, Munich RE, Zalando, Heidelberg Materials and Symrise are down 0.8 to 1.2%. Infineon Technologies, Deutsche Boerse and MTU Aero Engines are also down in negative territory.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer is gaining 1.8% and Sartorius is up nearly 1.5%. Continental, BASF, Deutsche Telekom, Beiersdorf, E.ON, Volkswagen and BMW are advancing 0.5 to 1.2%. <\/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 Extending Recent Weakness<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-26 10:33:02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are down in negative territory on Tuesday, extending losses from the previous session, due to geopolitical concerns and uncertainty about tariffs. French political risks also appear to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63487,"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-63486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63486","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=63486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}