DAX Rises 1.5% As Stocks Move Higher On Ukraine Ceasefire Hopes

RTTNews | 9h 38min ago

(RTTNews) - After three successive days of declines, German stocks are up in positive territory Wednesday morning with investors reacting to news that Ukraine has signaled its readiness to accept a U.S. proposal for an "immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire" with Russia.

"A while ago, Ukraine has agreed to the ceasefire. Now we go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will agree to it also," U.S. President Trump said soon after the Jeddah announcement.

On the tariff fron, Russia and the European Union have announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum.

The benchmark DAX was up 334.34 points or 1.5% at 22,651.20 a little while ago.

Siemens Energy is climbing up 5.3% and Rheinmetall is rising nearly 5%. Heidelberg Materials is up 3.5%, while Siemens, Commerzbank, MTU Aero Engines, Muench. Rueckvers, Hannover Rueck, Deutsche Bank and Allianz are up 2 to 3%.

Fresenius, RWE, BASF, Deutsche Post, Fresenius Medical Care, Deutsche Boerse and SAP are also noably higher.

Shares of sportswear maker PUMA SE are down 22.7% as the group gave a cautious outlook for the 2025 fiscal year, citing global trade tariffs and currency volatility.

Looking ahead, for fiscal 2025, the company projects adjusted EBIT excluding one-time costs in a range between 520 million euros and 600 million euros. Currency-adjusted sales growth is projected at low- to mid-single digit percentage rate.

In fiscal 2024, EBIT was 622 million euros with an EBIT margin of 7.1%, and currency-adjusted sales growth was 4.4%.

Porsche is down 3.7% after slashing profit targets for fiscal 2025. The company reported weak operating profit in fiscal 2024 amid lower sales and deliveries. The lower results were mainly due to the continuing market challenges in China.

In fiscal 2024, operating profit was 5.64 billion euros, down 22.6% from last year's 7.28 billion euros. Operating return on sales was 14.1%, lower than prior year's 18.0%.

Henkel and Zalando are down 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively. Brenntag is down marginally. The chemical maker said that its profit attributable to shareholders for financial year 2024 declined to 536.2 million euros or 3.71 euros per share from 714.9 million euros or 4.73 euros per share in the prior year.

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RTTNews | 4h 29min ago

Bank Of Canada Cuts Interest Rates By Another 25 Basis Points

With inflation close to the 2 percent target, the Bank of Canada on Wednesday announced its widely expected decision to lower interest rates by another 25 basis points, making its seventh straight rate cut. The Bank of Canada said it decided to reduce its target for the overnight rate to 2.75 percent, with the Bank Rate at 3 percent and the deposit rate at 2.70 percent.

RTTNews | 4h 54min ago

U.S. Consumer Prices Rise Less Than Expected In February, Annual Growth Slows

A report released by the Labor Department on Wednesday showed consumer prices in the U.S. increased by slightly less than expected in the month of February. The Labor Department said its consumer price index crept up by 0.2 percent in February after climbing by 0.5 percent in January. Economists had expected consumer prices to rise by 0.3 percent.

RTTNews | 5h 14min ago

Bay Street Likely To Open On Positive Note

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RTTNews | 6h 6min ago

U.S. Consumer Prices Rise Slightly Less Than Expected In February

A report released by the Labor Department on Wednesday showed consumer prices in the U.S. increased by slightly less than expected in the month of February.

RTTNews | 6h 28min ago

India Inflation Weakest In 7 Months

India's consumer price inflation slowed to a seven-month low in February as food price growth hit the lowest in nearly two years, raising expectations of interest rate cuts over coming months. Consumer price inflation eased to 3.61 percent in February from 4.26 percent in January, official data revealed on Wednesday. This was the lowest since July 2024.

RTTNews | 6h 57min ago

ECB Chief Says Uncertainty Exceptionally High

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the level of uncertainty is exceptionally high and maintaining stability has become difficult. "The level of uncertainty we are facing is exceptionally high," she said at a conference organized by the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at Goethe University Frankfurt on Wednesday.

RTTNews | 7h 31min ago

Yen Falls Amid Risk-on Mood

The Japanese yen weakened against other major currencies in the European session on Wednesday, as European shares traded higher after Ukraine signaled its readiness to accept a U.S. proposal for an "immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire" with Russia, and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum.

RTTNews | 7h 50min ago

EURUSD	1.09146	GBPUSD	1.29491	AUDUSD	0.6296
USDJPY	148.299	USDCAD	1.44008	USDCHF	0.88286

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DAX Rises 1.5% As Stocks Move Higher On Ukraine Ceasefire Hopes