Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer & Cyclical, Financial Services and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX gained 0.86%, while the MDAX index climbed 1.33%, and the TecDAX index climbed 1.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn), which rose 2.52% or 0.92 points to trade at 37.41 at the close. Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (DE:PSMGn) added 1.98% or 0.610 points to end at 31.470 and Fresenius Medical Care KGAA ST (DE:FMEG) was up 1.85% or 1.600 points to 87.880 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Linde AG O.N. (DE:LING), which lost 0.94% or 1.65 points to trade at 174.50 in late trade. Muench. Rueckvers. VNA O.N. (DE:MUVGn) declined 0.36% or 0.65 points to end at 182.10 and Commerzbank AG O.N. (DE:CBKG) shed 0.36% or 0.046 points to 12.790.
The top performers on the MDAX were Stroeer SE (DE:SAXG) which rose 3.92% to 63.650, Kion Group AG (DE:KGX) which was up 3.78% to settle at 71.30 and Airbus Group SE (F:AIRG) which gained 2.41% to close at 95.330.
The worst performers were Lanxess AG (DE:LXSG) which was down 0.35% to 67.580 in late trade, Hugo Boss AG NA O.N. (DE:BOSSn) which lost 0.22% to settle at 72.940 and Wacker Chemie O.N. (DE:WCHG) which was down 0.18% to 141.05 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were RIB Software AG Na (DE:RIB) which rose 8.23% to 25.520, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was up 4.86% to settle at 75.550 and Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (DE:AFXG) which gained 2.86% to close at 50.750.
The worst performers were Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology O.N. (DE:PV) which was down 2.84% to 154.00 in late trade, Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which lost 1.21% to settle at 9.468 and Adva Optical Networking SE (DE:ADAG) which was down 0.79% to 6.290 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 562 to 178 and 66 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 9.83% to 18.66.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.05% or 0.70 to $1354.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.64% or 0.39 to hit $61.73 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.65 to trade at $64.98 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.57% to 1.2433, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8852.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.49% at 88.90.