FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX) - The latest correction in the Dax seems to have ended for the time being: on Tuesday, around two and a half hours before the start, the broker IG put the German leading index at 20,238 points, half a percent higher. At the beginning of the week, the Dax had temporarily fallen back to 20,025 points, after reaching 20,480 points in the previous week – within sight of its record of 20,522 points set in mid-December.

The Dow Jones Industrial started a recovery on the lowest level since the beginning of November despite persistent concerns that the US Federal Reserve would wait before making further interest rate cuts or could even raise them again. The technology exchange Nasdaq indices closed down, but were able to pull well away from the day's lows. The Nasdaq 100 selection index thus turned around at its 100-day line./ag/zb