Investing.com – Germany equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrials, Transportation & Logistics and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 0.42%, while the MDAX index lost 0.84%, and the TecDAX index declined 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Infineon Technologies AG NA O.N. (DE:IFXGn), which rose 3.20% or 0.640 points to trade at 20.630 at the close. Daimler AG NA O.N. (DE:DAIGn) added 2.04% or 1.120 points to end at 56.000 and Fresenius SE & Co KGAA O.N. (DE:FREG) was up 0.85% or 0.580 points to 69.200 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Siemens AG Class N (DE:SIEGn), which lost 2.65% or 2.92 points to trade at 107.42 in late trade. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (DE:LHAG) declined 2.36% or 0.490 points to end at 20.250 and Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn) shed 2.08% or 0.87 points to 40.87.
The top performers on the MDAX were Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (DE:PSMGn) which rose 0.88% to 22.8000, Symrise AG Inh. O.N. (DE:SY1G) which was up 0.78% to settle at 80.200 and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (DE:PBBG) which gained 0.61% to close at 13.09.
The worst performers were GEA Group AG (DE:G1AG) which was down 4.03% to 29.510 in late trade, Kion Group AG (DE:KGX) which lost 3.06% to settle at 52.64 and Jungheinrich AG O.N.VZO (DE:JUNG_p) which was down 3.02% to 32.080 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Isra Vision O.N. (DE:ISRG) which rose 4.11% to 45.60, Siltronic AG (DE:WAFGn) which was up 3.59% to settle at 114.050 and Nemetschek AG O.N. (DE:NEKG) which gained 3.25% to close at 133.500.
The worst performers were Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which was down 5.88% to 8.170 in late trade, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which lost 3.66% to settle at 92.150 and SLM Solutions Group AG (DE:AM3D) which was down 3.33% to 20.30 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 441 to 251 and 86 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 5.22% to 15.42.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.38% or 16.50 to $1208.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.13% or 0.10 to hit $75.20 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.05% or 0.04 to trade at $84.94 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.13% to 1.1563, while EUR/GBP rose 0.27% to 0.8902.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 95.02.