Dax Unchanged After Merkel's Ruling Coalition Suffers Defeat
Description:Germany's DAX index was left almost unchanged the day after Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition suffered a defeat in a key state election. Her Christian Democrats (CDU), led by rising star David McAllister, had convinced themselves over the past week that they were on the verge of a stunning come-from-behind victory in Lower Saxony, a major agricultural and industrial region that is Germany's closest approximation to a swing state. But on Sunday (January 20) , they came up agonisingly (1:07)