Thyssenkrupp might exit German benchmark index after split - WAZ

Reuters

Published Oct 02, 2018 07:38

Thyssenkrupp might exit German benchmark index after split - WAZ

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Shares in Thyssenkrupp (DE:TKAG) might drop out of Germany's blue-chip DAX index (GDAXI) following a planned corporate split announced last week, its chief executive told a paper.

"The DAX is not an end in itself," Guido Kerkhoff told Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), according to its Tuesday edition. "We are building two strong companies that will be better able to develop than Thyssenkrupp in its current form."