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STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies and leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, today announced the new composition of the DAX blue-chip indices.

The STOXX World AC index added 5.8% last month in US dollars, erasing its 2025 losses. The Eurozone’s EURO STOXX 50 climbed 5.4%. Germany’s DAX advanced 6.7%, taking its gain this year to 21%.

Stocks jumped the most in 1½ years in May after the US and China agreed to pause import tariffs as both nations negotiate a reduction in trade costs. European stocks extended this year’s rally on expectations the region may be spared the worst effects of increased export duties to the US.

The new iShares fund offers precise exposure to European companies expected to benefit from the region’s historic ramp-up in military investments. The launch marks another collaboration in thematic ETFs between BlackRock and STOXX.

The new indices expand STOXX’s presence in the fixed income segment and strengthen its collaboration with ICE, which already provides pricing and reference data for calculation and reporting of STOXX’s eb.rexx bond indices.

STOXX Ltd. today announced its collaboration with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, to support a suite of fixed income climate indices launched on June 2.

STOXX Ltd. today announced the new composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. Effective as of the opening of European markets on March 24, 2025, the following stocks will be added to and deleted from the index and its respective size or sector indices.

Antonio Celeste, Head of Sustainability, Index Product Management at STOXX, explains in an interview with Asset TV how the indices hand investors the tools and advanced data to build portfolios.

STOXX Ltd. today announced its expanding collaboration with BlackRock, with BlackRock’s launch of the iShares Europe Defence UCITS ETF (DFEU), which tracks the STOXX® Europe Targeted Defence index.

The index selects European companies from ICB’s Aerospace and Defense Sector that have revenues from specific defense activities, seeking a focused strategy on the military re-equipment theme.

Triodos Investment Management (Triodos IM) and STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, today announced the launch of the iSTOXX Triodos Developed Markets Impact Index.

STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies and a leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, today announced the launch of new DAX composite benchmarks offering investors the opportunity to combine different size segments of the German equity market into one index strategy.