Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Software, Financial Services and Retail sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX rose 0.14%, while the MDAX index gained 0.32%, and the TecDAX index climbed 1.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Volkswagen AG VZO O.N. (DE:VOWG_p), which rose 1.41% or 2.14 points to trade at 154.44 at the close. Deutsche Boerse AG (DE:DB1Gn) added 1.32% or 1.500 points to end at 115.300 and Fresenius SE & Co KGAA O.N. (DE:FREG) was up 1.12% or 0.760 points to 68.920 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Thyssenkrupp AG O.N. (DE:TKAG), which lost 1.43% or 0.320 points to trade at 22.070 in late trade. Continental AG O.N. (DE:CONG) declined 1.41% or 3.10 points to end at 217.10 and Daimler AG NA O.N. (DE:DAIGn) shed 0.74% or 0.450 points to 60.450.
The top performers on the MDAX were Metro AG (DE:MEOG) which rose 3.47% to 7.756, MTU Aero Engines NA O.N. (DE:MTXGn) which was up 2.13% to settle at 162.90 and Osram Licht AG (DE:OSRn) which gained 1.91% to close at 49.58.
The worst performers were Duerr AG (DE:DUEG) which was down 1.64% to 91.000 in late trade, Puma SE (DE:PUMG) which lost 1.23% to settle at 483.50 and Schaeffler AG Pref (DE:SHA_p) which was down 1.22% to 12.50 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Isra Vision O.N. (DE:ISRG) which rose 7.37% to 51.70, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was up 5.20% to settle at 102.150 and Medigene NA O.N. (DE:MDG1k) which gained 3.83% to close at 13.000.
The worst performers were Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 3.70% to 14.445 in late trade, Aixtron SE (DE:AIXGn) which lost 1.57% to settle at 11.895 and Draegerwerk VZO O.N. (DE:DRWG_p) which was down 1.55% to 63.700 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 384 to 320 and 82 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 6.27% to 15.60.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.21% or 2.70 to $1275.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.48% or 0.96 to hit $65.86 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $75.00 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 1.1589, while EUR/GBP fell 0.22% to 0.8777.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 94.66.