{"id":68719,"date":"2026-01-15T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/15\/dax-modestly-lower-auto-stocks-among-notable-losers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:12:04","slug":"dax-modestly-lower-auto-stocks-among-notable-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/15\/dax-modestly-lower-auto-stocks-among-notable-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Modestly Lower; Auto Stocks Among Notable Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> German stocks are showing weakness Thursday morning with investors making cautious moves, digesting corporate news and the latest economic data from the region, in addition to following the geopolitical developments. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX, which dropped to 25,235.00 from an early high of 25,337.02, was down 55.81 points or 0.22% at 25,259.02 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fresenius is down 2.7% and Mercedes-Benz is declining by 2.1%. BMW, Deutsche Telekom and Henkel are down 1.4 to 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche Automobil Holding, Volkswagen, Continental, SAP and Bayer are lower by 0.7 to 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Siemens Energy is rising 2.7%. RWE is up 1.7%, gaining for a second straight session. Vonovia is up nearly 1.5%, while E.ON and Adidas are up 1.4% and 1.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Merck, Siemens, Zalando, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank and GEA Group are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the federal Statistical office Destatis said Germany&#8217;s GDP expanded by 0.2% in 2025, rebounding from a 0.5% contraction in 2024, according to preliminary estimates. Manufacturing output fell for the third consecutive year, and construction also faced another difficult year, while the services sector showed a mixed picture.<\/p>\n<p>A separate date from Destatis showed Germany&#8217;s wholesale prices rose 1.2% yoy in December 2025, easing from a 1.5% growth in the previous month, which had marked the fastest rate since February. On a monthly basis, wholesale prices fell 0.2%, reversing gains of 0.3% in each of the prior two months. <\/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 Modestly Lower; Auto Stocks Among Notable Losers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-15 10:12:04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German stocks are showing weakness Thursday morning with investors making cautious moves, digesting corporate news and the latest economic data from the region, in addition to following the geopolitical developments&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68720,"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-68719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68719","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=68719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}