FRANKFURT (DEUTSCHE-BOERSE AG) – Today marks the start of what is historically the weakest month for the DAX. This increases the risk of further price declines. The labor market data due at the end of the week should provide insight into the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy.
September 1, 2025. FRANKFURT (Frankfurt Stock Exchange). “All eyes are on the US labor market data,” says Martin Hartmann of Commerzbank, describing the starting point for the new week. The publication scheduled for Friday afternoon is eagerly awaited, among other things because the number of new jobs created in May and June was revised downwards so significantly in the previous month that there was hardly any job growth at all. This cost the head of the statistics agency BLS her job.
Following Donald Trump’s appointment of a new head of the agency, Hartmann fears a “politicization of the data.” Weak labor market data would make it easier for the…
