Investing.com – Germany equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Construction, Industrials and Financial Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX declined 0.49%, while the MDAX index lost 0.51%, and the TecDAX index declined 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were Deutsche Bank AG NA O.N. (DE:DBKGn), which rose 2.47% or 0.173 points to trade at 7.175 at the close. Linde PLC (DE:LINI) added 0.73% or 1.300 points to end at 180.050 and Fresenius Medical Care KGAA ST (DE:FMEG) was up 0.51% or 0.360 points to 71.060 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Siemens AG Class N (DE:SIEGn), which lost 2.94% or 3.10 points to trade at 102.44 in late trade. Heidelbergcement AG O.N. (DE:HEIG) declined 2.47% or 1.740 points to end at 68.800 and Covestro AG (DE:1COV) shed 1.44% or 0.630 points to 43.220.
The top performers on the MDAX were Zalando SE (DE:ZALG) which rose 6.19% to 40.51, Leoni AG (DE:LEOGn) which was up 3.33% to settle at 13.960 and Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which gained 2.79% to close at 90.2500.
The worst performers were Knorr-Bremse AG (DE:KBX) which was down 4.30% to 92.25 in late trade, Kion Group AG (DE:KGX) which lost 3.52% to settle at 54.26 and Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 2.95% to 36.250 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which rose 2.79% to 90.250, Medigene NA O.N. (DE:MDG1k) which was up 1.16% to settle at 7.420 and Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which gained 0.97% to close at 14.640.
The worst performers were Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 2.95% to 36.2500 in late trade, Jenoptik AG (DE:JENGn) which lost 2.92% to settle at 26.600 and Siltronic AG (DE:WAFGn) which was down 2.67% to 61.960 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 410 to 251 and 93 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 5.10% to 13.39.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.42% or 20.15 to $1400.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.24% or 0.14 to hit $57.48 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.75% or 1.11 to trade at $64.41 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.55% to 1.1221, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8965.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.60% at 96.905.