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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - The purchases on the German stock market continued towards the middle of the week.

For the Dax it went up in the first few minutes of trading by 1.1 percent to 13,986 points, the leading index only narrowly failed at the round mark of 14,000 points.

This is the third trading day in a row with profits.

A stress factor of the previous week, the tussle between professional hedge funds and private investors organized in social networks, is being perceived less and less as a threat to the markets.

The speculative trench war had thrown hedge funds into trouble and caused huge swings in the price of individual stocks.

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The MDax of the medium-sized values ​​rose in the morning by 0.8 percent to 32 295 points.

The leading Eurozone index EuroStoxx 50 gained around one percent.

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