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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Thanks to the strong requirements of the overseas exchanges, the Dax broke the 14,000 point mark again on Thursday at the start of trading.
But then profits crumbled again.
In early trading, the German benchmark index last held up 0.04 percent at 13,982.19 points.
The MDax of medium-sized companies rose by 0.81 percent to 32,017.32 points.
The leading Eurozone index EuroStoxx 50 rose by 0.31 percent.
The generally positive mood on the stock market was triggered by another record high for the Wall Street Index Dow Jones and a significant recovery in the recently weak Nasdaq indices.
The Asian stock exchanges also followed suit after US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke up again on Wednesday and thus had a reassuring effect on equity investors.
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After the previous day the focus was mainly on stocks from the second and third row, this morning Dax stocks again attracted attention with news.
In addition to the chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer, which disappointed with its cautious outlook and whose share lost 4.0 percent at the end of the Dax, the view also went in the direction of Deutsche Telekom.
Their share was one of the Dax's top values with plus 1.5 percent.
According to a trader, the T-share benefited from the significant post-market price increase of the T-Mobile US share of around five percent.
The American mobile communications subsidiary secured frequency spectrum in an auction that can be used for the new 5G mobile communications standard.
Munich Re's shares rose by 0.8 percent.
As expected, the profits of the reinsurer Munich Re fell sharply in the past year due to the corona pandemic.
Although the surplus reached the profit forecast issued by the group at the beginning of December, it was somewhat weaker than the average forecast recently forecast by analysts.
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In the second row, Aixtron shares jumped 17 percent to 20 euros, a ten-year high.
The hunger of industry and people for ever faster data transmission and the latest entertainment electronics is what drives the LED and chip industry supplier.
The company, whose systems help in the production of LEDs for displays, 3D sensors and energy management chips, wants to accelerate growth significantly in 2021.
In addition, the shareholders are to receive a dividend for the first time in almost a decade.
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