Investing.com – Germany stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Financial Services and Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX rose 0.64%, while the MDAX index climbed 0.82%, and the TecDAX index gained 1.94%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (ETR:SATG_p), which rose 8.45% or 18.40 points to trade at 236.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Qiagen NV (ETR:QIA) added 5.31% or 1.77 points to end at 35.12 and BASF SE NA O.N. (ETR:BASFN) was up 4.45% or 1.86 points to 43.53 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG Preferred (ETR:P911_p), which fell 0.86% or 0.72 points to trade at 82.54 at the close. Siemens Energy AG (ETR:ENR1n) declined 0.78% or 0.07 points to end at 8.37 and Deutsche Bank AG NA O.N. (ETR:DBKGn) was down 0.50% or 0.05 points to 10.36.
The top performers on the MDAX were LEG Immobilien AG (ETR:LEGn) which rose 5.68% to 58.84, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (ETR:AFXG) which was up 5.39% to settle at 81.74 and Tag Immobilien AG (ETR:TEGG) which gained 4.71% to close at 10.29.
The worst performers were Knorr-Bremse AG (ETR:KBX) which was down 3.56% to 52.54 in late trade, HelloFresh SE (ETR:HFGG) which lost 2.79% to settle at 20.56 and Stabilus (ETR:STM1) which was down 2.28% to 59.90 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (ETR:SATG_p) which rose 8.45% to 236.20, Verbio Vereinigte Bioenergie AG (ETR:VBKG) which was up 6.02% to settle at 31.87 and Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (ETR:AFXG) which gained 5.39% to close at 81.74.
The worst performers were United Internet AG NA (ETR:UTDI) which was down 1.60% to 19.65 in late trade, Aixtron SE (ETR:AIXGn) which lost 0.86% to settle at 26.46 and Kontron AG (ETR:KTN) which was down 0.37% to 19.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 415 to 206 and 33 ended unchanged.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 5.70% to 18.87.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.69% or 13.85 to $1,991.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.42% or 1.17 to hit $81.14 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.42% or 1.23 to trade at $85.12 a barrel.
EUR/USD was unchanged 0.37% to 1.06, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.18% to 0.87.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.58% at 106.55.