Today: Deutsche Börse launches 24/7 trading | Possible consequences of the midterms for the portfolio

Deutsche Börse now offers trading in DAX shares around the clock, seven days a week. Outside of regular trading hours and on weekends, Dax shares can now be traded via the Deutsche Börse subsidiary 360X - but initially only for institutional customers such as banks.

Unlike the electronic trading system Xetra, there is no continuous trading in which buy and sell orders from all participants come together. The German leading index Dax is still only calculated between the core trading hours of 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Andreas Kröner, team leader for insurance and banking at Handelsblatt, explains what this will change for private investors and why this is perhaps only the first step towards actual 24/7 trading for all market participants.

The focus of the show is then on the upcoming midterm elections in the USA. According to experts and surveys, it is very unlikely that the Republicans will be able to defend their majority in both chambers of Congress. The result would be a divided government that would make it more difficult for the US president to implement plans. Laurin Meyer, Handelsblatt US correspondent in New York, explains what this would mean for the stock markets and individual sectors.