Investing.com – Germany equities were mixed at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financial Services and Media sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Basic Resources, Insurance and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 0.29%, while the MDAX index added 0.41%, and the TecDAX index fell 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Continental AG O.N. (DE:CONG), which rose 1.87% or 4.10 points to trade at 223.75 at the close. Beiersdorf AG O.N. (DE:BEIG) added 1.64% or 1.610 points to end at 99.990 and Deutsche Telekom AG Na (DE:DTEGn) was up 1.35% or 0.200 points to 15.010 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Muench. Rueckvers. VNA O.N. (DE:MUVGn), which lost 2.73% or 5.25 points to trade at 186.95 in late trade. RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG) declined 1.94% or 0.380 points to end at 19.250 and Adidas AG (DE:ADSGN) shed 1.38% or 2.45 points to 175.20.
The top performers on the MDAX were Uniper SE (DE:UN01) which rose 2.82% to 24.995, RTL Group SA (DE:RRTL) which was up 2.18% to settle at 67.000 and Osram Licht AG (F:OSRn) which gained 1.58% to close at 72.031.
The worst performers were Salzgitter AG (DE:SZGG) which was down 2.25% to 43.265 in late trade, Aurubis AG (DE:NAFG) which lost 1.34% to settle at 69.700 and Innogy SE (DE:IGY) which was down 1.18% to 38.835 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Wirecard AG (DE:WDIG) which rose 3.54% to 89.560, Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which was up 3.54% to settle at 8.534 and Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which gained 2.99% to close at 79.310.
The worst performers were Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 17.90% to 30.465 in late trade, Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology O.N. (DE:PV) which lost 5.89% to settle at 152.60 and Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which was down 3.07% to 12.330 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 399 to 353 and 36 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 0.40% to 14.13.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.69% or 8.83 to $1273.27 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.12% or 0.07 to hit $57.23 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.21% or 0.13 to trade at $62.40 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.36% to 1.1890, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8812.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 93.04.