{"id":68446,"date":"2026-01-08T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/dax-retreats-after-hitting-new-record-high\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:40:02","slug":"dax-retreats-after-hitting-new-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/08\/dax-retreats-after-hitting-new-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Retreats After Hitting New Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stock market&#8217;s benchmark DAX climbed to a new record high Thursday morning amid rising geopolitical tensions following the seizure of two oil tankers by the U.S. One of the tankers was Russian-flagged.<\/p>\n<p>However, after rising to 25,222.92, the index pared gains subsequently and slipped into negative territory. It was seen at 25,073.99 a little while ago, down 24.54 points or 0.1% from previous close.<\/p>\n<p>Defense stocks moved higher after U.S. President Donald Trump called for higher U.S. defense spending.<\/p>\n<p>Rheinmetall climbed 1.5%. Bayer, E.ON., Henkel, Fresenius, Deutsche Bank, Allianz, Deutsche Telekom and Siemens Healthineers gained 0.3 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Zalando drifted down by about 2.5%. Siemens Energy, Adidas, BMW, Brenntag and Volkswagen lost 1 to 1.7%. <\/p>\n<p>Porsche Automobil Holding, Deutsche Boerse, Infineon Technologies, Heidelberg Materials, Fresenius Medical Care, Mercedes-Benz and Beiersdorf slid by 0.5 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, data from the Federal Statistical Office showed Germany&#8217;s factory orders jumped 5.6% mom in November 2025, picking up from an upwardly revised 1.6% increase in the prior month. This marked the third straight monthly gain and the strongest pace since December 2024. <\/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 Retreats After Hitting New Record High<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-08 10:40:02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stock market&#8217;s benchmark DAX climbed to a new record high Thursday morning amid rising geopolitical tensions following the seizure of two oil tankers by the U.S. One of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68447,"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-68446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446","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=68446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}