Investing.com – Germany equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Utilities, Technology and Construction sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX lost 0.86%, while the MDAX index fell 1.61%, and the TecDAX index lost 1.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were SAP AG O.N. (DE:SAPG), which rose 5.35% or 3.240 points to trade at 63.750 at the close. Lufthansa AG VNA O.N. (DE:LHAG) added 0.26% or 0.035 points to end at 13.575 and Deutsche Boerse NA O.N. (DE:DB1Gn) was down 0.39% or 0.300 points to 76.310 in late trade.
Biggest losers included RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG), which lost 5.75% or 0.770 points to trade at 12.625 in late trade. E.ON SE NA (DE:EONGn) declined 4.70% or 0.449 points to end at 9.113 and K+S AG NA O.N. (DE:SDFGn) shed 2.63% or 0.645 points to 23.875.
The top performers on the MDAX were Suedzucker Mannheim Ochsenfurt AG (DE:SZUG) which rose 2.86% to 15.465, Fraport AG (DE:FRAG) which was up 0.49% to settle at 57.230 and Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn) which gained 0.43% to close at 28.96.
The worst performers were Leoni AG NA O.N. (DE:LEOGn) which was down 33.54% to 35.550 in late trade, Norma Group AG NA O.N. (DE:NOEJ) which lost 6.92% to settle at 44.695 and Hochtief AG (DE:HOTG) which was down 6.27% to 76.650 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were SMA Solar Technology AG (DE:S92G) which rose 0.77% to 38.180, Cancom SE O.N. (DE:COKG) which was up 0.57% to settle at 31.640 and Adva Optical Networking SE (DE:ADAG) which gained 0.10% to close at 10.200.
The worst performers were Aixtron SE NA O.N. (DE:AIXGn) which was down 12.94% to 4.984 in late trade, Kontron AG O.N. (DE:KBCG) which lost 6.32% to settle at 2.859 and STRATEC Biomedical AG (DE:SBSG) which was down 4.66% to 48.640 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 528 to 157 and 32 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 3.13% to 21.10.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.15% or 1.80 to $1166.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.46% or 0.69 to hit $47.79 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.76% or 0.38 to trade at $50.63 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.20% to 1.1383, while EUR/GBP rose 0.89% to 0.7466.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 94.80.