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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Negative news from and about Great Britain put pressure on the German stock market on Monday.
The leading index Dax fell in early trading by 2.00 percent to 13,357.87 points.
The record high, which was just missed on Friday, has moved a little further out of view for the leading German index.
The Dax had reached its high in February at almost 13,800 meters.
The MDax of the medium-sized values lost 1.77 percent on Monday morning to 29,867.13 points.
The leading Eurozone index EuroStoxx 50 fell by 1.79 percent to 3482.22 points.
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A coronavirus mutation that surfaced in the UK brought worries about the pandemic and its aftermath back to the markets.
This probably even more contagious variant triggers fears about even tougher and longer restrictions.
In addition, a Brexit trade pact is still not in sight.
In the Dax, the shares of Adidas held up relatively well at minus 0.5 percent, while Puma lost almost 2 percent in line with the overall market.
US competitor Nike had significantly exceeded expectations with its quarterly figures.
The world's largest sporting goods manufacturer continued to benefit from booming sales on the Internet during the corona pandemic.
This morning a number of analysts raised their target price for the Nike shares.
In general, shares of corona crisis winners rose again in view of the virus mutation or only fell moderately, while crisis losers came under significant pressure again.
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In the Dax, for example, Delivery Hero remained unchanged and in the MDax, Teamviewer increased by almost 2.0 percent and Hellofresh by 0.8 percent.
In contrast, shares from the aviation industry fell.
The papers of Lufthansa and those of the airport operator Fraport sagged by around 7 percent.
Airbus and MTU each lost around 4.0 percent.
The focus was also on index changes.
Siemens Energy, which was listed on the stock exchange in September, is now in the MDax.
Their shares gave way by 0.7 percent.
Leasing specialist Grenke therefore relegated to the SDax and took the place of Tele Columbus.
The cable operator is no longer represented in the Dax family, but was still in view on Monday morning.
A takeover offer fueled the shares, which have recently risen sharply.
They jumped 12 percent up.
An infrastructure fund from Morgan Stanley made a purchase offer of 3.25 euros per share, which was not only welcomed by Tele Columbus.
Internet service provider United Internet, which has a share of just under 30 percent in Tele Columbus, also sees the strategic move as positive.
Its papers recently lost 4.2 percent.
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