DAX Index Closes Lower Amid German Labor Market Focus
Closes 0.96% Lower
Frankfurt’s DAX dropped 0.9% to close at 22,460 on Friday, marking its third straight session of declines and underperforming its European peers.
Local equities were in the red on Friday after latest data showed continued weakness in the German labor market, weighing on the already-cautious market sentiment due to US tariff concerns.
Technically, DAX went below channel trend line that indicates more losses on a horizon
Close below 22.400 would be very bearish sign and opens a way for 21.700
Resistances above the head: 22.600, 22.750 & 23.0150
US500 (down) and EURUSD (up) charts (15 min) look like a mirror (DAX also down) which doesn;t make sense if you believe tariff fallout may be contained.
With that said, EURUSD currently testing 1.0830, no stops on first test,
Wall Street shares looked set to open higher on Monday and the dollar firmed at the start of a data-driven week, while the threat of U.S. tariff hikes made investors cautious in Europe.
S&P 500 futures ES1! were up about 1.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures NQ1! were 1% higher at 1218 GMT.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to exclude a set of sector-specific tariffs while applying reciprocal levies on April 2, according to media reports over the weekend that helped sentiment in early trading.
The pan-European STOXX 600 SXXP ticked down 0.1%, with most of the region’s indexes lower except for Germany’s DAX, which rose 0.2% after data showed manufacturing output there increased for the first time in almost two years.
This week’s data releases include global purchasing managers’ surveys, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation reading, inflation data in Australia and Japan, a budget update in Britain, and major earnings in China.