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08.11.2024

US Federal Reserve lowers key interest rate by 25 basis points
+ Goldman raises Biontech to 'Buy' - target up to 137 dollars + Bechtle higher - remains optimistic for the final quarter + Redcare at three-year high


The US Federal Reserve has lowered its key interest rate by 25 basis points. This decision had been firmly expected on the markets. The decision was taken unanimously by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The decision, which was taken in the week of Donald Trump's re-election as US president, followed an initial cut of 50 basis points in September and will bring the key interest rate to a range of 4.50 to 4.75 percent. US Federal Reserve officials have said that these rate cuts are justified because they are more confident that inflation will return to the central bank's target and because they believe that interest rates are still high enough to dampen economic activity even after the recent cuts. "The Council judges that the risks to achieving the employment and inflation objectives are roughly balanced," the Fed's statement said. Trump's election victory has the potential to reshape the economic outlook as the Republicans' likely majority in Congress allows for a sweeping change of course on taxes, spending, immigration and trade. The changing outlook has in turn raised questions on Wall Street as to whether the Fed will change its previous expectation that interest rates could be steadily lowered over the next year or two.


The US investment bank Goldman Sachs has Biontech $BNTX (-0.93%) from "Neutral" to "Buy" and raised its price target from 90 to 137 US dollars. Analyst Chris Shibutani now includes BNT327 - an antibody that the Mainz-based company is testing against various solid tumors - in his buy recommendation published on Friday. The investment story is moving further away from the difficult-to-assess Covid vaccine market.


With Bechtle $BC8 (-0.45%) a very weak 2024 share was in demand in pre-market trading on Friday. Following the IT service provider's final quarterly figures, the shares rose by 2.7 percent in Tradegate trading compared to the Xetra closing price. An attempt to recover from the low since 2020 thus continues. So far this year, the share has lost around 28% despite the recent stabilization and a gain of 3.3% the day before. Since the record high in 2021, the share price has even more than halved. According to a trader, the business environment for Bechtle in the third quarter was characterized by challenges. The results showed a mixed picture with weak demand in the core markets of Germany and France, but solid organic growth in other international markets, and another trader emphasized that Bechtle is optimistic about the future and continues to expect an improvement in the fourth quarter. However, the first mentioned trader sees risks in the fact that public IT spending in Germany could suffer for the time being from the end of the traffic light coalition.


The good performance of the shares of Redcare Pharmacy $RDC (-1.31%) continued on Friday with a high since December 2021. The shares were already the biggest MDax gainer in 2023 and are among the better performers in the mid-cap index this year. On Friday, they rose by up to three percent to EUR 157.60 in early Xetra trading. So far this year, they have repeatedly struggled in the EUR 153 to 154 range.


Friday: Stock market dates, economic data, quarterly figures


ex-dividend of individual stocks

Apple USD 0.25

Pfizer USD 0.42

ConocoPhillips USD 0.78

Wells Fargo USD 0.4


Quarterly figures / company dates USA / Asia

07:00 Sony quarterly figures

Untimed: Baxter International quarterly figures


Quarterly figures / Company dates Europe

07:00 LEG Immobilien | Richemont Quarterly figures

07:30 Bechtle | Deutsche Wohnen Quarterly figures

08:00 Banca Monte dei Paschi | International Consolidated Airlines Quarterly figures

10:00 Freenet earnings call and strategy update until 2028

10:30 Bechtle analyst and press conference

14:00 Pernod Ricard AGM


Economic data


  • 06:00 JP: Leading indicators 9/24 (preliminary)
  • 08:00 DE: Domestic tourism | Truck toll mileage index October
  • 09:00 DE: Bundestag, Plenum, Berlin
  • 11:30 DE: Government Pk, Berlin
  • 16:00 US: Consumer Sentiment Index Uni Michigan (1st survey) November FORECAST: 71.0 previous: 70.5


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Perhaps a somewhat stupid question, but is it still worth investing in gold, certainly in the long term, but now that Trump has become president, does it make sense to invest?
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@samer777 What does Trump have to do with gold?
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@samer777 Gold is there to secure your wealth in the long term.
What else do you want to do with gold?
@Roman_moed It strengthens the US economy, causing the US dollar to appreciate. Gold sometimes moves against the dollar, crisis dollar falls gold rises and vice versa. It already has a point Gold is depreciating slightly at the moment. However, there is a global shortage that will continue for the next 5-7 years. Many emerging markets are buying gold as a safe haven, as are private investors. In the long term, gold can only rise; the question is whether equities will not rise much more and people will leave money lying around.
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@Maximilian01 probably stocks will outperform gold for sure, but there is no tax on gains from precious metals which is a big point imo .
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@samer777 Also a good argument
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