Investing.com – Germany equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Food & Beverages, Utilities and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 0.47%, while the MDAX index fell 0.28%, and the TecDAX index lost 0.75%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Lufthansa AG VNA O.N. (DE:LHAG), which rose 0.68% or 0.125 points to trade at 18.630 at the close. Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn) added 0.56% or 0.20 points to end at 35.60 and Infineon Technologies AG NA O.N. (DE:IFXGn) was up 0.28% or 0.055 points to 19.660 in late trade.
Biggest losers included RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG), which lost 2.88% or 0.565 points to trade at 19.070 in late trade. E.ON SE NA (DE:EONGn) declined 1.35% or 0.122 points to end at 8.905 and Linde AG O.N. (DE:LING) shed 1.18% or 2.05 points to 171.15.
The top performers on the MDAX were Metro AG ST O.N. (DE:MEOG) which rose 3.83% to 29.800, Salzgitter AG (DE:SZGG) which was up 3.72% to settle at 35.840 and Stroeer SE (DE:SAXG) which gained 2.50% to close at 55.270.
The worst performers were Suedzucker AG (DE:SZUG) which was down 5.33% to 18.735 in late trade, Zalando SE (DE:ZALG) which lost 3.64% to settle at 41.02 and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (DE:PBBG) which was down 2.75% to 10.41 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Cancom SE O.N. (DE:COKG) which rose 3.38% to 54.800, Aixtron SE (DE:AIXGn) which was up 2.82% to settle at 5.970 and CompuGroup Medical AG O.N. (DE:COPMa) which gained 1.71% to close at 51.650.
The worst performers were Wirecard AG (DE:WDIG) which was down 3.39% to 58.110 in late trade, Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which lost 3.06% to settle at 10.285 and Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was down 2.13% to 63.060 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 440 to 298 and 21 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 1.97% to 12.99.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.63% or 7.81 to $1257.21 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.68% or 0.29 to hit $43.03 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.75% or 0.34 to trade at $45.56 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.40% to 1.1197, while EUR/GBP rose 0.05% to 0.8797.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.32% at 96.95.