Go to fashionable bars in any major German city and you’re likely to hear more heated talk about the stock market than about politics or sport. “It’s got to the stage where it’s become like the football results,” says Christian Bacherl, a project manager in equity capital markets at HypoVereinsbank in Munich.
For the first time, queues of German retail investors seeking shares have formed in banks. And though reports that the whole country has caught the fever for US-style equity culture are perhaps exaggerated, there is solid evidence that the average German investor has overcome a prejudice against stock market investment.
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