{"id":69275,"date":"2026-01-28T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/28\/dax-turns-weak-after-positive-start-infineon-rises-over-6\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:50:20","slug":"dax-turns-weak-after-positive-start-infineon-rises-over-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/28\/dax-turns-weak-after-positive-start-infineon-rises-over-6\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX Turns Weak After Positive Start; Infineon Rises Over 6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After moving higher early on in the session thanks to gains in <span class=\"landLinks\">technology<\/span> stocks, the German market retreated Wednesday morning with investors turning cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy announcement due later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Investors assessed the EU-India trade deal, and weighed European Central Bank official Martin Kocher&#8217;s comments that the central bank might start cutting rates if Euro surges higher.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark DAX was down 54.80 points or 0.22% at 24,853.43 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>Infineon Technologies climbed 6.3%. Daimler Truck Holding, Siemens Energy, Brenntag and Vonovia gained 1.3 to 1.8%. Continental, SAP, Symrise, Scout24 and Allianz posted modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of chemicals maker Wacker Chemie rallied 3% after the company launched a \u20ac300 mln cost-cutting plan.<\/p>\n<p>Fresenius, Bayer, Heidelberg Materials and GEA Group lost 2.1 to 2.8%. MTU Aero Engines, Qiagen, Commerzbank, Siemens Healthineers, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bank, Merck and Beiersdorf lost 1 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, survey data published jointly by NIQ\/GfK and the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions showed German consumer confidence is set to improve in February, driven by strong rebounds in income expectations and willingness to buy.<\/p>\n<p>The forward-looking consumer climate indicator rose more-than-expected to -24.1 from -26.9 in January. The score was expected to climb to -25.5 in February.<\/p>\n<p>Economic and income expectations as well as the willingness to buy improved, while the willingness to save was mostly stable in January.<\/p>\n<p>The willingness to save remained at a very high level in January and had no significant influence on the monthly confidence indicator, the survey showed. The corresponding index dropped to 17.9 from 18.7.<\/p>\n<p>Although the consumer confidence index recovered notably from the strong losses, the indicator remained low, GfK said.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers assess that the German <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> is returning to a moderate growth path after three years of recession or stagnation. Economic experts currently expect the largest euro area economy to grow by around one percent in 2026. <\/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 Turns Weak After Positive Start; Infineon Rises Over 6%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-28 10:50:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving higher early on in the session thanks to gains in technology stocks, the German market retreated Wednesday morning with investors turning cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69276,"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-69275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69275","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=69275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}