Investing.com – Germany equities were mixed at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financial Services, Software and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Construction, Basic Resources and Retail sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX added 0.35%, while the MDAX index climbed 0.80%, and the TecDAX index declined 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (DE:BMWG), which rose 3.17% or 2.850 points to trade at 92.640 at the close. Volkswagen AG VZO O.N. (DE:VOWG_p) added 2.28% or 4.10 points to end at 184.00 and Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn) was up 1.57% or 0.63 points to 40.84 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Heidelbergcement AG O.N. (DE:HEIG), which lost 1.41% or 1.320 points to trade at 92.300 in late trade. Thyssenkrupp AG O.N. (DE:TKAG) declined 1.38% or 0.350 points to end at 25.010 and Linde AG O.N. (DE:LING) shed 1.35% or 2.60 points to 189.45.
The top performers on the MDAX were Lanxess AG (DE:LXSG) which rose 3.91% to 72.220, Hugo Boss AG NA O.N. (DE:BOSSn) which was up 3.73% to settle at 75.680 and Rational AG (BS:RAAd) which gained 2.89% to close at 552.00.
The worst performers were Jungheinrich AG O.N.VZO (DE:JUNG_p) which was down 1.44% to 41.000 in late trade, Salzgitter AG (DE:SZGG) which lost 1.18% to settle at 50.040 and Hella KGaA Hueck & Co (DE:HLE) which was down 0.95% to 57.10 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Aixtron SE (DE:AIXGn) which rose 2.34% to 12.470, Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:SATG_p) which was up 1.95% to settle at 88.750 and United Internet AG NA (DE:UTDI) which gained 1.20% to close at 57.540.
The worst performers were Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which was down 3.32% to 13.840 in late trade, RIB Software AG Na (DE:RIB) which lost 3.12% to settle at 26.700 and Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which was down 2.50% to 11.105 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 399 to 331 and 85 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 2.30% to 12.33.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.01% or 0.20 to $1334.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.82% or 0.53 to hit $63.77 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.47% or 1.03 to trade at $69.23 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.19% to 1.2243, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8890.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 90.36.