Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Construction, Software and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX gained 0.33%, while the MDAX index gained 0.29%, and the TecDAX index added 0.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Heidelbergcement AG O.N. (DE:HEIG), which rose 2.01% or 1.140 points to trade at 57.800 at the close. Wirecard AG (DE:WDIG) added 1.62% or 2.200 points to end at 138.100 and Merck KGaA (DE:MRCG) was up 1.46% or 1.32 points to 91.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Deutsche Post AG NA O.N. (DE:DPWGn), which lost 1.97% or 0.490 points to trade at 24.420 in late trade. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (DE:LHAG) declined 1.77% or 0.355 points to end at 19.715 and Fresenius SE & Co KGAA O.N. (DE:FREG) shed 1.38% or 0.600 points to 42.800.
The top performers on the MDAX were Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which rose 4.22% to 19.620, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was up 3.38% to settle at 104.0000 and Airbus Group SE (DE:AIRG) which gained 2.66% to close at 92.23.
The worst performers were Kion Group AG (DE:KGX) which was down 4.77% to 43.35 in late trade, Freenet AG NA (DE:FNTGn) which lost 4.07% to settle at 16.2600 and Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (DE:PSMGn) which was down 2.93% to 15.0800 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Steinhoff International Holdings NV (DE:SNHG) which rose 10.95% to 0.12, Jenoptik AG (DE:JENGn) which was up 8.61% to settle at 26.480 and S&T AG (DE:SANT1) which gained 4.13% to close at 17.65.
The worst performers were Deutsche Beteiligungs AG O.N. (DE:DBANn) which was down 10.01% to 31.000 in late trade, Medigene NA O.N. (DE:MDG1k) which lost 2.81% to settle at 8.980 and Corestate Capital Holding SA (DE:CCAG) which was down 2.21% to 28.7500 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 390 to 305 and 84 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 3.88% to 19.55 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.21% or 2.75 to $1288.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 2.55% or 1.29 to hit $51.80 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 2.05% or 1.21 to trade at $60.20 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.69% to 1.1395, while EUR/GBP rose 0.20% to 0.8934.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.58% at 95.762.