FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX) - After a weaker start to the week, little is likely to happen on the DAX on Tuesday. Broker IG assessed the leading German index at 18,588 points on Monday morning, almost unchanged around two and a half hours before the Xetra start.

So far, the Dax is waiting for confirmation of its attempted chart breakout on Friday afternoon. By rising to its highest level since the beginning of June, it had also broken the correction trend that had been in place since the record high of 18,892 points in mid-May. The previous day's setback brought it back to this trend line.

Despite further records in the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500, there is no fresh momentum from Wall Street. The daily highs here coincided roughly with the end of European trading, after which the gains melted away noticeably.

The record rally in the recently leading indices of the technology stock exchange Nasdaq has stalled in recent days anyway.