As every Sunday, the most important news from the past week, as well as the most important dates for the coming week.
Also as a video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/MPfcvaQVGPA?si=-QhW8CmB_VQrw6TJ
Monday:
Prime Minister Takaichi achieves strong results in the parliamentary elections in Japan and can now practically rule through. The election is well received on the stock markets. Defense and technology stocks in particular benefit.
Thursday:
The slump in profits at $MBG (+0,3%) Mercedes. However, it should have been known for a long time that this profit slump would occur. Analysts had expected EBIT of 6.4 instead of 5.8 billion euros, but even that would have been a fall of around 50%. Turnover fell by nine percent to 134 billion euros.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/mercedes-gewinn-2025-100.html
The company $MSTR (+1,55%) Strategy is increasingly being targeted by short sellers. The reason is falling Bitcoin prices. Strategy bought bitcoins partly with borrowed capital in the belief that prices would continue to rise. Now the prices are falling and the leverage is hitting back mercilessly. Short sellers are betting that Strategy will now have to sell Bitcoins at a high loss. This could also increase the pressure on Bitcoin.
Friday:
Surprisingly sharp fall in the inflation rate in the US to 2.4% in January 2026 compared to January 2025, mainly due to falling energy prices and higher productivity. This more than compensates for higher costs due to tariffs.
These are the most important dates for the coming week:
Tuesday: 11:00 ZEW survey (DE)
Wednesday: 20:00 FOMC Minutes (USA)
Friday: 08:00 Producer prices (DE)
#zew
#fomc
#erzeugerpreise
#termine
#info
Can you think of any other dates?