Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Retail, Consumer & Cyclical and Food & Beverages sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX rose 0.68%, while the MDAX index climbed 0.71%, and the TecDAX index climbed 1.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (ETR:SATG_p), which rose 6.52% or 14.90 points to trade at 243.30 at the close. Rheinmetall AG (ETR:RHMG) added 3.80% or 17.90 points to end at 489.30 and Merck KGaA (ETR:MRCG) was up 2.70% or 4.20 points to 159.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included BASF SE NA O.N. (ETR:BASFN), which lost 2.31% or 1.03 points to trade at 43.74 in late trade. Commerzbank AG O.N. (ETR:CBKG) declined 1.25% or 0.19 points to end at 15.06 and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (ETR:BMWG) shed 0.73% or 0.64 points to 87.56.
The top performers on the MDAX were Aixtron SE (ETR:AIXGn) which rose 4.93% to 20.54, Delivery Hero AG (ETR:DHER) which was up 4.25% to settle at 19.36 and HelloFresh SE (ETR:HFGG) which gained 3.91% to close at 5.90.
The worst performers were Wacker Chemie O.N. (ETR:WCHG) which was down 7.77% to 93.48 in late trade, Thyssenkrupp AG O.N. (ETR:TKAG) which lost 7.73% to settle at 3.57 and Lanxess AG (ETR:LXSG) which was down 2.93% to 24.54 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (ETR:SATG_p) which rose 6.52% to 243.30, Aixtron SE (ETR:AIXGn) which was up 4.93% to settle at 20.54 and Nordex SE O.N. (ETR:NDXG) which gained 3.23% to close at 14.07.
The worst performers were Siltronic AG (ETR:WAFGn) which was down 2.17% to 74.50 in late trade, Cancom SE O.N. (ETR:COKG) which lost 0.75% to settle at 31.84 and Hensoldt Ag (ETR:HAGG) which was down 0.72% to 33.26 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 394 to 207 and 32 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 4.15% to 15.72.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 1.31% or 30.80 to $2,384.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.41% or 1.10 to hit $77.18 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.53% or 1.26 to trade at $81.11 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.14% to 1.09, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.04% to 0.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 104.06.