Tag Archiv: Sentiment

DAX-Sentiment: Domestic investors have ‘learned’ to distrust the DAX

13. October 2011

Rather than make another 180-degree change in their beliefs, many investors have preferred to use the recent stock market strength to express their scepticism.

FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). An almost ten-percent move in five trading days is a DAX move that investors have become very increasingly accustomed to since the summer; there have been no end of them between the Deutsche Börse’s weekly sentiment surveys. But this one seems to have taken many by surprise – as indeed has the abrupt revival of the many base metals and the oil price. Bewildered, one commentator categorised the stock market rally as ‘contrary to the fundamentals’. This is because the news over the period has continued to be dominated by concerns about deteriorating global growth, the eurozone’s in particular.

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6211

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DAX-Sentiment: Relative good news not enough to lift the DAX

6. October 2011

EU policymakers are in the global spotlight, but chastened investors dare not pre-empt the policy response.

FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). Global leaders seem to have lost patience with EU politicians in recent weeks. What began as polite suggestions concerning potential solutions to the crisis and measures to restore confidence in the markets has turned into outright criticism about the sloth of the decision-making process and appeals for urgent action. From Asia to the Americas, from Britain to the BRICs, world leaders are now crying for quick and transparent decisions from the EU17, not only to save the eurozone, but to prevent a double-dip recession in their own constituencies...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6197

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DAX-Sentiment: Steam room too hot? What about a cold shower?

29. September 2011

The stock market volatility has taken its toll on DAX investors. Many of them simply wanted out.

28 September 2011. FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). DAX investors have had to endure yet another week where they have been obliged to hop between a hot steam room and the cold shower. Immediately after last week’s survey, which showed a reduced but still determined optimism, the blue-chip index plunged ten percent, practically back to the year’s low. From there, it recovered the entire loss just as quickly as it had been shed. This was the second round-trip across this 600-point range since the start of the month – enough to upset the blood pressure of even the most seasoned market operators...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6181

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DAX-Sentiment: News-flow contrasts stock prices and investor sentiment

22. September 2011

Investors may agree that peripheral eurozone sovereign debt is the greatest risk for the global economy, but portfolio adjustments at the margin do not appear to have been too great.

Survey by Deutsche Boerse, commented by Cognitrend.

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6164

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DAX-Sentiment: News importance depends on where investors bought

15. September 2011

There have been repeated attempts by optimistic investors to pick a bottom for the DAX.  All have ended in tears. In one case, however, these tears have not yet dried.

Survey by Deutsche Boerse, commented by Cognitrend

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6137

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DAX-Sentiment: If there was panic in the market, it is not visible here

8. September 2011

Investors waiting for a post-August rebound have discovered that September could be just as challenging, but they have not lost their nerve. Even as the market weakened, they added to their existing bullish positions. The result is a Bull/Bear-Index at a five-year high...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6120

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DAX-Sentiment: Optimists are battling, but not too hard

1. September 2011

31 August 2011. FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). Read any article about the recent stock market sell-off and you will probably see a phrase that mentions the huge amount of wealth that was “wiped away”. Certainly, domestic investors who put their cash into German blue chips have suffered equity losses as a result of August’s dramatic downswing. But their wealth? The reality is that Germans are wealthier than ever. Even in 2009, the year that followed the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the total wealth of German population rose to a new record...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6104

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DAX-Sentiment: Correction went too far for investors

25. August 2011

24 August. German fund managers weren’t intimidated by the recent equity-market weakness. They entered into dip-buying strategies this week to push our Bull/Bear Index to its third highest reading of the year...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6089

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DAX-Sentiment: Consolidation is likely

18. August 2011

17 August 2011. FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). This week’s survey from the Börse Frankfurt revealed a story that was nearly inevitable: the influx of optimism from those who were bargain-hunting right up until last week’s poll is all but gone this week. Some two-thirds of those actors went directly into the bear camp, and the others stepped to the sidelines. The size of this shift suggests that our panel of medium-term investors were rewarded for their courage...

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DAX-Sentiment: Controlled resistance against uncontrolled panic

11. August 2011

10 August 2011. FRANKFURT (Börse Frankfurt). Admittedly, what equity traders were expected to deal with this year in the middle of their usual summer-holiday period was no day at the beach. The exponentially escalating credit crisis in the eurozone and the contentious US debt-ceiling debate were enough to fray any seasoned investor’s nerves, but a downgrade last weekend of the world’s largest debt pool was simply the last straw.

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DAX-Sentiment: A Midsummer Nightmare

4. August 2011

The US government resolved its budget impasse, and DAX investors were shaken to the bone.

Equity traders who had heretofore shrugged off everything the EU sovereign debt crisis could throw at them suddenly became weak-kneed following the resolution the US budget deal, and the DAX suffered significant losses this week...

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=44&NewsID=6043

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