Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Construction, Basic Resources and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX gained 0.55%, while the MDAX index added 0.37%, and the TecDAX index gained 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Volkswagen AG VZO O.N. (DE:VOWG_p), which rose 3.16% or 3.800 points to trade at 124.200 at the close. Bay.Motoren Werke AG ST (DE:BMWG) added 1.33% or 1.010 points to end at 77.230 and Heidelbergcement AG O.N. (DE:HEIG) was up 1.12% or 0.920 points to 83.020 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Deutsche Boerse AG (DE:DB1Gn), which lost 0.62% or 0.460 points to trade at 73.150 in late trade. Vonovia SE (DE:VNAn) declined 0.44% or 0.15 points to end at 35.42 and Commerzbank AG O.N. (DE:CBKG) shed 0.38% or 0.023 points to 6.024.
The top performers on the MDAX were Hella KGaA Hueck & Co (DE:HLE) which rose 2.32% to 36.11, Salzgitter AG (DE:SZGG) which was up 1.46% to settle at 28.795 and Osram Licht AG (F:OSRn) which gained 1.30% to close at 47.346.
The worst performers were Fielmann AG (DE:FIEG) which was down 3.00% to 69.300 in late trade, Leoni AG (DE:LEOGn) which lost 2.86% to settle at 32.985 and Hugo Boss AG NA O.N. (DE:BOSSn) which was down 1.12% to 55.620 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Siltronic AG (DE:WAFGn) which rose 2.36% to 18.215, Jenoptik AG (DE:JENG) which was up 2.04% to settle at 16.250 and Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which gained 1.88% to close at 25.190.
The worst performers were Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was down 0.80% to 38.390 in late trade, Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which lost 0.74% to settle at 4.421 and RIB Software AG Na (DE:RIB) which was down 0.74% to 9.330 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 536 to 315 and 32 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was unchanged 0.00% to 17.92.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.01% or 0.15 to $1324.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.23% or 0.11 to hit $47.22 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.58% or 0.29 to trade at $49.38 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.51% to 1.1224, while EUR/GBP fell 0.18% to 0.8541.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.56% at 95.21.