Investing.com – Germany stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrial, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Media sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 1.54%, while the MDAX index lost 1.89%, and the TecDAX index fell 2.15%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Lufthansa AG VNA O.N. (XETRA:LHAG), which rose 1.79% or 0.235 points to trade at 13.360 at the close. Meanwhile, E.ON SE NA (XETRA:EONGn) added 0.51% or 0.070 points to end at 13.815 and Deutsche Boerse NA O.N. (XETRA:DB1Gn) was down 0.25% or 0.190 points to 74.830 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Daimler AG NA O.N. (XETRA:DAIGn), which fell 4.26% or 4.080 points to trade at 91.710 at the close. Thyssenkrupp AG O.N. (XETRA:TKAG) declined 3.48% or 0.885 points to end at 24.570 and K & S AG NA O.N. (XETRA:SDFGN) was down 3.00% or 0.985 points to 31.855.
The top performers on the MDAX were Fraport AG (XETRA:FRAG) which rose 1.09% to 55.600, Talanx AG NA O.N. (XETRA:TLXGn) which was up 0.53% to settle at 31.395 and DMG Mori Seiki AG (XETRA:GILG) which gained 0.20% to close at 30.690.
The worst performers were Airbus Group (XETRA:AIRG) which was down 4.42% to 61.123 in late trade, Rheinmetall AG (XETRA:RHMG) which lost 3.36% to settle at 45.735 and Hugo Boss AG NA O.N. (XETRA:BOSSn) which was down 3.29% to 114.700 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG (XETRA:O2Dn) which rose 2.49% to 5.390, Bechtle AG O.N. (XETRA:BC8G) which was down 0.30% to settle at 75.590 and Software AG O.N. (XETRA:SOWG) which lost 0.70% to close at 26.095.
The worst performers were BB Biotech AG (XETRA:BIONn) which was down 7.53% to 305.250 in late trade, Stratec Biomedical (XETRA:SBSG) which lost 6.33% to settle at 44.025 and Jenoptik AG O.N. (XETRA:JENG) which was down 4.54% to 12.815 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 592 to 141 and 36 ended unchanged.
Shares in Talanx AG NA O.N. (XETRA:TLXGn) rose to all time highs; up 0.53% or 0.165 to 31.395.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 15.40% to 19.63.
Gold for April delivery was down 0.39% or 4.50 to $1148.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude Oil for delivery in May fell 0.82% or 0.38 to hit $45.75 a barrel, while the May Brent Oil contract fell 0.58% or 0.32 to trade at $53.62 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.0595, while EUR/GBP rose 0.83% to 0.7185.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.16% at 99.97.