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DAX jumped 2.1% to a 52-week high

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

DAX closed at 26,163.81 on 2026-08-04, jumped 2.1% on the session and is +6.8% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Germany's DAX finished its 31 July 2026 session at 25,629.24, a gain of 0.07 per cent. That is close enough to unchanged that the day is better described as flat than as an advance: buyers and sellers ended the session almost exactly where they had started it.

The quiet close came at the top end of the index's own range. The DAX sat 0.73 per cent below its 52-week high of 25,817.89 and 14.93 per cent above its 52-week low of 22,300.75, so the index spent the day within touching distance of its best level of the past year. It also held above both of the trend lines traders watch most often — the 50-day moving average at 25,033.11 and the 200-day average at 24,395.47, each simply the average closing level over that many sessions. Over longer windows the picture was one of steady rather than dramatic gains: up 2.11 per cent on the week, 0.19 per cent on the month, 5.03 per cent over three months and 4.65 per cent so far in 2026.

Peer markets in the pack are not all measured from the same session, so they read as a sequence rather than a single global day. Among the European and Asian markets that also last closed on 31 July, the CAC 40 rose 0.28 per cent, the Euro Stoxx 50 added 0.21 per cent and the FTSE 100 slipped 0.27 per cent, while the Hang Seng gained 0.1 per cent, Shanghai 0.72 per cent, the Sensex 0.21 per cent, the Nifty 50 0.27 per cent and the TAIEX 7.98 per cent. The US benchmarks were a session or two later: as of 3 August the Nasdaq was up 2.13 per cent, the S&P 500 1.48 per cent and the Dow 1.32 per cent. Later still, on 4 August, the ASX 200 rose 0.98 per cent, the Nikkei fell 1.81 per cent and the KOSPI dropped 6.49 per cent.

Headlines around the index have run ahead of the close recorded here. Yahoo Finance carried a report that the DAX passed the 26,000 mark, and marketscreener.com reported a Frankfurt close above 26,000 points for the first time, alongside a separate report tying a DAX rally to German manufacturing and retail sales data. Yahoo Finance UK reported European shares advancing as oil prices fell. These are headlines rather than confirmed detail, and they carry timestamps after the 31 July level in this pack.

For the 0.07 per cent move itself, the data shows no single obvious catalyst. What it does establish is position, not cause: a market parked just under its yearly high and above both moving averages, moving barely at all on the day.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.