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DAX edged down 0.3%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

DAX closed at 26,126.30 on 2026-08-05, edged down 0.3% on the session and is +6.7% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Germany's DAX ended 5 August at 26,126.3, down 0.29% on the day. The decline was shallow enough that the benchmark finished roughly where it began, and it left the index just under its own ceiling: the pack puts the DAX 0.29% below its 52-week high of 26,202.35.

That second figure is the more telling one. Nothing in the day's slip changed where the index stands in its longer trend. The DAX traded above both its 50-day moving average of 25,084.68 and its 200-day average of 24,425.7 - the two rolling averages chart-watchers use as rough shorthand for medium- and long-term direction. It sat 17.15% above its 52-week low of 22,300.75, and its returns were positive across every window the pack reports: up 2.62% over the past week, 2.6% over the past month, 7.34% over three months and 6.68% so far in 2026.

Peer markets carrying the same 5 August date were similarly undramatic. The Euro Stoxx 50 lost 0.15%, the CAC 40 added 0.03% and the FTSE 100 rose 0.08%. In the United States the S&P 500 was off 0.14% and the Nasdaq 0.64%, while the Dow gained 0.75%. India's Sensex closed 0.19% higher and the Nifty 50 0.04% higher.

The Asian readings in the pack are one session older, dated 4 August, so they belong to the previous trading day rather than to this one. On that date the KOSPI rose 1.62% and the ASX 200 1.4%, with Shanghai up 0.33% and the Nikkei 0.32%. The TAIEX eased 0.06% and the Hang Seng fell 0.6%.

The news attached to the index is mostly about the level itself. A finance.yahoo.com headline from two days earlier reported that the DAX had passed the record 26,000 mark, and marketscreener.com ran a headline the day before this session saying the index had closed higher while Zalando tumbled. A further marketscreener.com headline, around ten hours before this wrap, put a heavy run of company earnings and the state of the German economy at the centre of attention.

What the evidence does not contain is a reason for the 0.29% dip. No data release, policy decision or individual company in the pack is tied to it. On the numbers available, this was a quiet step back from record territory by an index still above both of its major moving averages.

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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.