Market index
Germany DAX
Germany's benchmark index, a read on European growth and export manufacturing.
At a glance
Germany DAX: latest value and prior change
As of 2026-07-30, Germany DAX is 25,612 pt. It is 151.5 pt higher than 25,460 pt on 2026-07-29.
Across 110 available observations from 2026-02-24 to 2026-07-30, the latest value is at the tie-adjusted 98th percentile.
- Observed on
- Default comparison window
- 2026-02-24–2026-07-30
- Observations · observed cadence
- 110 · Daily
- Data source
- Naver Finance
A high or low percentile does not by itself make the indicator positive, negative, or a buy or sell signal.
Time-series chart
Germany DAX
2026-02-24–2026-07-30
Long-history series are stored as real provider observations. Index, FX, VIX, and ratio charts use historical backfill where providers expose it; Korean investor flow and margin-credit feeds expand as stable historical endpoints become available.
Interpretation guide
Germany's DAX: Europe's export-manufacturing bellwether
The DAX tracks forty large caps on the Frankfurt exchange. Heavy in autos, industrials, chemicals, and software, it reads European demand and the global trade cycle at once — and since Germany and Korea share an export-manufacturing model, the DAX doubles as background for Korean exporters.
What the index contains
Unusually among major benchmarks, the DAX is a total-return index that reinvests dividends. Its members — SAP, Siemens, Volkswagen — earn globally, making the index more sensitive to world demand, especially China, than to German domestic conditions.
- Weak German automakers reflect Chinese demand and the EV transition simultaneously.
- SAP's growing weight is gradually tilting the index toward technology.
- As a total-return index, its long-run performance overstates against price indexes like KOSPI or the S&P 500.
The link to Europe and Korea
Germany is Europe's largest economy with an export structure much like Korea's, so DAX direction reads European demand and the global trade cycle together. ECB policy and energy prices feed through quickly.
- DAX strength signals recovering European demand — supportive for Korean sectors selling into the EU.
- Read it with EUR/KRW to combine the demand picture with price competitiveness.
- Energy price spikes squeeze German manufacturing costs and weigh on the index.
Uses and misreads
Because DAX members earn globally, the index and the German domestic economy often decouple. Judge Germany's economy from surveys like IFO and PMI; use the index as a global-trade signal.
- DAX-versus-US relative strength tracks global rotation into or out of Europe.
- Policy themes — defense and infrastructure spending — increasingly lead the index.
- Korean auto stocks and German carmakers mix competition with co-movement; avoid one-line readings.