Market insight: Hope for a quieter year on the stock markets

Smooth sessions

After a turbulent year on the stock markets – like 2022 – there usually followed one with few fluctuations in history.

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Dusseldorf There are difficult times on the stock market – at least if you believe the pessimists who forecast 10,000 points and less for the Dax this stock market year. But how likely are such dark scenarios really?

After the best start to the year ever, four-digit Dax listings would mean a crash of around 35 percent. This would require new “doomsday news”.

For comparison: During the corona pandemic, the Dax fell by around 40 percent. Before that, there was a similar crash in 2011. At that time, the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the debt crisis in the USA and, above all, the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis caused the Dax to crash by around 38 percent from May to September 2011.

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