{"id":64290,"date":"2025-09-16T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/16\/dax-drifts-lower-ahead-of-fed-policy-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:47:12","slug":"dax-drifts-lower-ahead-of-fed-policy-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/16\/dax-drifts-lower-ahead-of-fed-policy-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Drifts Lower Ahead Of Fed Policy Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are down in negative territory on Tuesday with investors mostly staying cautious, focusing on the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy meeting, which gets underway today, and the ongoing trade talks between China and the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX was down 118.68 points or 0.5% at 23,615.07 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>Bayer is down 2.7% and Heidelberg Materials is losing about 2.4%. Commerzbank, Fresenius, Symrise, Merck, Porsche Automobil Holding, Continental, Zalando and Adidas are down 1 to 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Siemens Energy is declining by nearly 1%. Siemens Healthineers, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Fresenius Medical Care, BMW and Infineon Technologies are also weak.<\/p>\n<p>Hannover Rueck is rising by about 3.6%. Munich RE is up nearly 2% and E.ON is gaining 1.5%. Rheinmetall, Porsche, Allianz, SAP, RWE and Deutsche Bank are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased to 37.3 in September 2025 from 34.7 in August, beating forecasts of 26.3.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the current conditions gauge declined for a second consecutive month to -76.4 from -68.6, worse than market expectations of -75. <\/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 Drifts Lower Ahead Of Fed Policy Meeting<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-09-16 10:47:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are down in negative territory on Tuesday with investors mostly staying cautious, focusing on the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy meeting, which gets underway today, and the ongoing trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290","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=64290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}