Investing.com – Germany equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Chemicals, Insurance and Software sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 0.73%, while the MDAX index lost 0.34%, and the TecDAX index fell 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Volkswagen AG VZO O.N. (DE:VOWG_p), which rose 3.10% or 4.600 points to trade at 152.800 at the close. Deutsche Boerse AG Z.UMT. (DE:DB11) added 2.23% or 1.75 points to end at 80.06 and Lufthansa AG VNA O.N. (DE:LHAG) was up 0.99% or 0.120 points to 12.230 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Commerzbank AG O.N. (DE:CBKG), which lost 2.00% or 0.161 points to trade at 7.900 in late trade. Merck KGaA (DE:MRCG) declined 1.41% or 1.450 points to end at 101.250 and Bayer AG NA (DE:BAYGN) shed 1.41% or 1.450 points to 101.050.
The top performers on the MDAX were Alstria Office Reit-Ag (DE:AOXG) which rose 1.63% to 11.550, Aurubis AG (DE:NAFG) which was up 1.21% to settle at 54.440 and Bilfinger SE O.N. (DE:GBFG) which gained 1.21% to close at 39.175.
The worst performers were Covestro AG (DE:1COV) which was down 2.11% to 67.200 in late trade, Jungheinrich AG O.N.VZO (DE:JUNG_p) which lost 1.83% to settle at 26.000 and Steinhoff International Holdings NV (DE:SNHG) which was down 1.54% to 4.81 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Siltronic AG (DE:WAFGn) which rose 6.40% to 52.420, Adva Optical Networking SE (DE:ADAG) which was up 1.56% to settle at 7.669 and Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which gained 0.67% to close at 7.480.
The worst performers were Nemetschek AG O.N. (DE:NEKG) which was down 2.22% to 52.370 in late trade, STRATEC Biomedical AG (DE:SBSG) which lost 2.07% to settle at 45.050 and S&T AG (F:SANT1) which was down 1.32% to 8.640 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 473 to 301 and 14 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 14.87% to 16.35.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 1.06% or 12.75 to $1217.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.03% or 0.55 to hit $52.67 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.61% or 0.34 to trade at $55.15 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.34% to 1.0739, while EUR/GBP fell 0.59% to 0.8600.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.56% at 100.21.