Investing.com – Germany stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Chemicals, Utilities and Insurance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX lost 0.94%, while the MDAX index fell 0.91%, and the TecDAX index lost 0.89%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Fresenius Medical Care KGAA ST (DE:FMEG), which rose 1.82% or 1.240 points to trade at 69.420 at the close. Meanwhile, Henkel & Co KGaA AG Pref (DE:HNKG_p) added 0.58% or 0.58 points to end at 99.98 and Thyssenkrupp AG O.N. (DE:TKAG) was up 0.37% or 0.060 points to 16.200 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Covestro AG (DE:1COV), which fell 3.82% or 1.900 points to trade at 47.880 at the close. Linde PLC (DE:LINI) declined 1.98% or 2.800 points to end at 138.300 and E.ON SE NA (DE:EONGn) was down 1.97% or 0.181 points to 9.000.
The top performers on the MDAX were Morphosys AG O.N. (DE:MORG) which rose 3.44% to 97.8500, Rheinmetall AG (DE:RHMG) which was up 2.00% to settle at 78.420 and Delivery Hero AG (DE:DHER) which gained 1.56% to close at 32.46.
The worst performers were Uniper SE (DE:UN01) which was down 3.05% to 24.510 in late trade, Nemetschek AG O.N. (DE:NEKG) which lost 2.83% to settle at 99.700 and GEA Group AG (DE:G1AG) which was down 2.62% to 26.050 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were SLM Solutions Group AG (DE:AM3D) which rose 13.21% to 12.00, Kloeckner & Co SE NA (DE:KCOGn) which was up 4.30% to settle at 7.2750 and JOST Werke AG (DE:JSTG) which gained 4.11% to close at 30.4000.
The worst performers were Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 3.00% to 22.6200 in late trade, SAF Holland SA (DE:SFQN) which lost 2.94% to settle at 12.550 and Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co KGaA (DE:BVB) which was down 2.92% to 8.635 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 476 to 237 and 67 ended unchanged.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 3.17% to 19.83.
Gold Futures for December delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $1228.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.45% or 0.79 to hit $53.84 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.84 to trade at $62.64 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.19% to 1.1406, while EUR/GBP fell 0.58% to 0.8857.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 96.380.