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The Dax has not yet shown a clear direction in October. Investors are faced with a choice between AI stocks and government bonds.
Dusseldorf. The German leading index has so far found no direction in October. On Tuesday, the Dax was up 0.5 percent at 25,378 points. At the start of the week, the Dax had barely changed at 25,254 points.
On Wall Street on Tuesday night, the big tech heavyweights pushed the US technology index Nasdaq to a record. The positive mood also helped the Asian stock exchanges achieve good results on Tuesday. Now the German stock market is also benefiting.
"This means that investors continue to have to decide between two opportunities on the financial markets. On the one hand, the AI and semiconductor companies with their trillion dollar valuations, and on the other hand, government bonds with increasingly attractive returns," analyzes Andreas Lipkow, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.
On the bond market, investors are primarily looking to France. The premium for French government bonds over German federal bonds reached its highest level since 2011 last Friday.
In recent months, the yields of many other bonds around the world have risen sharply. Yields on the US bond market, for example, rose more sharply in the third quarter than they have seen in 30 years.
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