German stocks - Factors to watch on September 27
27/09/2021 05:42
BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The following are some
of the factors that may move German stocks on Monday:
ELECTION
Germany's Social Democrats came first by a narrow margin in
Sunday's national election, projected results showed, putting
them in pole position to lead a government for the first time
since 2005 and to end 16 years of conservative-led rule under
Angela Merkel. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QS02E
The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) were on track for
25.5% of the vote, ahead of 24.5% for Merkel's CDU/CSU
conservative bloc, projections for broadcaster ARD showed, but
both groups believed they could lead the next government.
ZOOPLUS ZO1G.DE
Zooplus AG, one of Europe's largest online pet supplies'
retailers, said on Saturday that Swedish private equity firm EQT
AB EQTAB.ST has made an offer to buy the company for about
3.36 billion euros ($3.94 billion). urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2QR01L
ALLIANZ ALVG.DE
Allianz is in the process of offloading a large chunk of its
U.S. life insurance policies, Bloomberg reported on Friday,
citing people with knowledge of the matter. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2QQ218
DWS DWSG.DE
PwC was advising DWS on sustainability at the same time as
the accounting firm was investigating and dismissing
whistleblower allegations of large-scale greenwashing at the
asset manager, The Financial Times reported.
LPKF LPKG.DE
The company on Friday corrected its sales guidance for the
third quarter due to logistics bottlenecks but kept its
full-year outlook unchanged. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASN001OR7
CORONAVIRUS
Germany reported 3,022 new infections and 10 more deaths.
ANALYSTS' VIEWS
AUTO1 GROUP SE AG1G.DE : JP MORGAN RAISES TO OVERWEIGHT
FROM NEUTRAL
OVERSEAS STOCK MARKETS
Dow Jones .DJI +0.1%, S&P 500 .SPX +0.1%, Nasdaq .IXIC
unchanged at close. .N
Nikkei .N225 unchanged, Shanghai stocks .SSEC -1.3%.
.T .SS
Time: 4:42 GMT
ECONOMY
No major German economic data scheduled.
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