India, July 3 -- German stocks are up slightly on Thursday, thanks to gains at select autmobile and technology counters, amid expectations major European nations will eventually strike a fairly decent trade deal with the U.S.
The sentiment is lifted a bit on news about the Trump administration lifting some restrictions on exports of chip design software to China. Data showing an improvement in German business activity is also aiding sentiment.
The benchmark DAX, which climbed to 23,895.30 earlier in the session, was up 18.72 points or 0.08% at 23,801.58 a little past noon.
Infineon Technologies, Bayer and Symrise are gaining 1.5%, 1.3% and 1.2%, respectively. Qiagen, Siemens, Continental, Allianz, Hannover Rueck, Deutsche Post, E.ON and ...