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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - The day after the smooth change of power in the United States, investors remain subdued and cheerful.
After the Dax rose above the round mark of 14,000 points, the leading index quickly limited its gains again.
Most recently, the plus was 0.29 percent to 13,961.98 points.
On the European stage, the leading Eurozone index EuroStoxx 50 gained around 0.3 percent.
For a record, the Dax was missing a little more than 100 points even at the daily high.
In this respect, the second series of stock exchanges is setting new records for the leading index.
The MDax with the medium-sized values recently rose by 0.43 percent to 31,715.11 points, while the small-value representative SDax gained 0.39 percent to 15,639.12 points.
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The Democrat Joe Biden is now the 46th President of the USA.
He wants to support the economy, which has been badly hit by the corona pandemic, with further aid measures worth billions.
In New York, the courses had reached record highs on Wednesday in the course of his swearing in.
The Asian stock exchanges were largely infected by the positive mood on Thursday.
According to market expert Jochen Stanzl from broker CMC Markets, the fact that the Dax is lagging a little behind Wall Street and is only close to its record has to do with the recently strong euro.
The monetary policy decisions of the European Central Bank (ECB) should also help decide on its further development in the afternoon.
According to the unanimous opinion of experts, there will be no concrete change in the already very loose monetary policy.
However, investors should pay close attention to comments on the tightened lockdowns in many places.
On the company side, the shares of the shop pharmacy, which were always popular with investors in Corona times, moved positively into the spotlight.
With an increase of around four percent, they set a new record.
The next sentiment driver for the success-spoiled shareholders were strong figures from competitor Zur Rose, whose shares in Zurich also rose by five percent.
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In tow from the shop pharmacy, many other stocks were in demand on Thursday, which investors consider the winners of the pandemic.
In the SDax, the shares of the online pet supplies retailer Zooplus climbed particularly significantly by almost 8 percent.
In the MDax, those of the cooking box supplier Hellofresh posted an increase of 3.4 percent and the titles of the food delivery service Delivery Hero climbed by 1.1 percent in the Dax.
Otherwise the news situation remained calm.
The 0.2 percent weaker Qiagen shares did not benefit from a renewed application for US emergency approval for a corona antigen test.
Dealers reacted cautiously in the first comments.
According to Qiagen, the decision is not expected to have any impact on the annual outlook issued in December.
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