Investing.com – Germany stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Retail, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX gained 0.60%, while the MDAX index added 0.99%, and the TecDAX index added 1.49%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Delivery Hero AG (DE:DHER), which rose 5.61% or 6.80 points to trade at 128.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Siemens AG Class N (DE:SIEGn) added 2.95% or 3.84 points to end at 134.16 and RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG) was up 2.03% or 0.590 points to 29.710 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Continental AG O.N. (DE:CONG), which fell 2.06% or 2.41 points to trade at 114.30 at the close. Infineon Technologies AG NA O.N. (DE:IFXGn) declined 1.30% or 0.415 points to end at 31.585 and Deutsche Telekom AG Na (DE:DTEGn) was down 1.02% or 0.182 points to 17.713.
The top performers on the MDAX were Shop Apotheke Europe NV (DE:SAEG) which rose 6.88% to 138.300, Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:SATG_p) which was up 5.80% to settle at 496.500 and Rational AG (DE:RAAG) which gained 5.57% to close at 871.80.
The worst performers were Alstria Office Reit-Ag (DE:AOXG) which was down 6.35% to 17.400 in late trade, Varta AG (DE:VAR1) which lost 2.23% to settle at 140.300 and Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was down 1.68% to 55.060 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:SATG_p) which rose 5.80% to 496.500, Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which was up 3.69% to settle at 35.700 and Software AG (DE:SOWGn) which gained 3.64% to close at 40.740.
The worst performers were Varta AG (DE:VAR1) which was down 2.23% to 140.300 in late trade, LPKF Laser & Electronics (DE:LPKG) which lost 1.83% to settle at 20.420 and Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which was down 1.68% to 55.060 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 398 to 282 and 72 ended unchanged.
Shares in Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:SATG_p) rose to all time highs; gaining 5.80% or 27.200 to 496.500. Shares in Rational AG (DE:RAAG) rose to all time highs; up 5.57% or 46.00 to 871.80. Shares in Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (DE:SATG_p) rose to all time highs; up 5.80% or 27.200 to 496.500.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 8.11% to 18.58.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.23% or 4.15 to $1807.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.28% or 0.90 to hit $71.20 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.19% or 0.86 to trade at $73.09 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.20% to 1.1768, while EUR/GBP fell 0.42% to 0.8563.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 92.888.