Germany stocks mixed at close of trade; DAX up 0.58%

Investing.com – Germany stocks were mixed after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher while losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Frankfurt, the rose 0.58%, while the index climbed 0.09%, and the index lost 0.19%.

The best performers of the session on the were Linde PLC (DE:), which rose 3.01% or 5.100 points to trade at 174.450 at the close. Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank AG NA O.N. (DE:) added 2.70% or 0.170 points to end at 6.464 and Volkswagen AG VZO O.N. (DE:) was up 2.63% or 3.94 points to 153.94 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:), which fell 1.88% or 0.520 points to trade at 27.130 at the close. Beiersdorf AG O.N. (DE:) declined 1.74% or 1.850 points to end at 104.700 and E.ON SE NA (DE:) was down 1.59% or 0.140 points to 8.680.

The top performers on the MDAX were Siltronic AG (DE:) which rose 4.12% to 68.800, Commerzbank AG O.N. (DE:) which was up 3.85% to settle at 4.992 and Duerr AG (DE:) which gained 3.55% to close at 22.740.

The worst performers were Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (DE:) which was down 4.21% to 102.500 in late trade, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:) which lost 2.61% to settle at 97.2000 and Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:) which was down 2.26% to 159.900 at the close.

The top performers on the TecDAX were Siltronic AG (DE:) which rose 4.12% to 68.800, Software AG (DE:) which was up 2.49% to settle at 25.060 and Cancom SE O.N. (DE:) which gained 2.38% to close at 49.040.

The worst performers were Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (DE:) which was down 4.21% to 102.500 in late trade, Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:) which lost 2.61% to settle at 97.200 and Aixtron SE NA O.N. (DE:) which was down 2.47% to 8.8320 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 419 to 236 and 98 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 5.35% to 17.51.

Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.74% or 11.15 to $1501.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.64% or 0.86 to hit $53.45 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.25% or 0.73 to trade at $59.05 a barrel.

EUR/USD was up 0.46% to 1.1019, while EUR/GBP fell 1.18% to 0.8879.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 98.363.

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