Frankfurt (Reuters) - According to calculations by banks and brokerage houses, the Dax will open higher on Monday.

On Friday it had closed 0.1 percent weaker at 16,555.13 points. Continuing doubts about the interest rate course of the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB) caused a negative mood. A sharp fall in German producer prices had initially given investors hope that consumer prices would fall and thus that interest rates would be lowered by the major central banks. However, representatives of the Fed and the ECB recently signaled that it could take longer before the central banks actually cut interest rates again for the first time.

The focus on Monday will once again be on China. As expected, the Chinese central bank has left its key interest rates untouched. The one-year key lending rate (LPR) remains at 3.45 percent and the five-year LPR at 4.20 percent, as the central bank announced after its monthly meeting on the key monetary policy rate known as the loan prime rate (LPR).

               Closing prices of European indices as of Dax 16,555.13 Dax futures 16,787.00 EuroStoxx50 4,448.83 EuroStoxx50 futures 4,504.00 Closing prices of US indices as of Change previous trading day Dow Jones 37,863.80 +1.1 percent Nasdaq 15,310.97 +1.7 percent S&P 500 4,839.81 +1.2 percent Asian indices on Monday as of Change Nikkei 36,546.95 +1.6 percent Shang     
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