Benchmarks

Stocks rose for the seventh consecutive month in October, the longest positive run in over four years, following strong corporate earnings reports and amid investor expectations that global economic growth will be sustained.

A trading analysis of the past 12 years shows a large portion of the daily returns in the EURO STOXX 50 index occurs between a session close and the immediate open the following day. But does it pay off to trade this nighttime boost? Hamish Seegopaul, Global Head of Index Product Innovation at STOXX, takes a look.

Germany’s DAX is outperforming pan-European indices and its ETFs are luring record flows in 2025. Veronika Kylburg, Head of Global Benchmarks DAX at STOXX, discusses with the ETF publication what some of the drivers are behind this performance and explores the benchmark’s methodology changes since 2018.

This report, in partnership with ETF Stream, explores the macro and policy forces driving this momentum, the evolution of the DAX index family and how index innovation is helping investors express nuanced views across Germany’s growth story.

STOXX Ltd. today announced an unscheduled adjustment to the MDAX. Following the spin-off of TKMS AG & Co. KGaA from thyssenkrupp AG, an adjustment of the index is required.

STOXX Ltd. today announced the following unscheduled change to the SDAX index. Ceconomy St will leave the SDAX due to a breach of basic criteria as defined in chapter 5.4.2 of the DAX Equity Index Methodology Guide.

Stocks rose for the sixth consecutive month in September, the longest positive run in four years, on investor expectations that falling US interest rates and sustained economic growth will help corporate earnings.

STOXX Ltd. today announced an unscheduled adjustment to the DAX. Following the spin-off of AUMOVIO from Continental AG, an adjustment of the index is required.

Changes are part of the September regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX 30 ESG, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened, MDAX ESG+, MDAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.

STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies and leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, today announced the new composition of the DAX blue-chip indices.

The STOXX World AC index added 2.6% last month in US dollars to a new record, and rose 0.3% in euros. US stocks and Value indices led the advance for a second consecutive month.

Stocks gained for a fifth consecutive month in August amid expectations the Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates as early as this month.