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DAX Fluctuates After Mixed Earnings

German shares are little changed in choppy trade on Friday as investors digested mixed earnings results and pondered remarks from ECB President Mario Draghi.

The euro hovered near a seven-month low against the dollar in the wake of dovish remarks from Draghi yesterday.

The benchmark DAX is currently down 2 points or 0.01 percent at 10,699 in late opening deals after rising half a percent in the previous session.

Daimler shares are down about 2.5 percent after the luxury car maker lowered its forecasts for 2016.

SAP shares are climbing more than 3 percent. The software developer raised its full-year guidance despite reporting lower profit in its third quarter due to higher stock-based compensation expenses.

Globally, Asian stocks reversed early gains to close mostly lower today, as oil extended overnight losses and the dollar stood tall on rising expectations of a U.S. rate rise before year-end.

U.S. stock futures point to a lower open as investors eye more earnings and comments from Federal Reserve officials.

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All eyes were on the U.S. Federal Reserve this week as the bank announced its latest policy decision. Find out the signals given out by Chair Jerome Powell regarding the future path of interest rates. Some key data on the U.S. private sector economy were also released. Other main news included the flash estimates of first quarter GDP from Eurozone. Elsewhere, the Paris-based think tank OECD released its latest round of macroeconomic projections for the global economy.

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