Investing.com – Germany stocks were mixed after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Retail, Financial Services and Insurance sectors led shares higher while losses in the Food & Beverages, Transportation & Logistics and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX declined 0.44%, while the MDAX index climbed 0.10%, and the TecDAX index declined 1.26%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Muench. Rueckvers. VNA O.N. (XETRA:MUVGn), which rose 1.49% or 2.550 points to trade at 173.250 at the close. Meanwhile, Deutsche Boerse NA O.N. (XETRA:DB1Gn) added 1.07% or 0.900 points to end at 84.760 and Lufthansa AG VNA O.N. (XETRA:LHAG) was up 0.95% or 0.115 points to 12.185 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Deutsche Post AG NA O.N. (XETRA:DPWGn), which fell 3.64% or 1.030 points to trade at 27.240 at the close. Deutsche Telekom AG Na (XETRA:DTEGn) declined 1.74% or 0.300 points to end at 16.990 and Infineon Technologies AG NA O.N. (XETRA:IFXGn) was down 1.45% or 0.150 points to 10.195.
The top performers on the MDAX were Duerr AG O.N. (XETRA:DUEG) which rose 6.48% to 82.600, Brenntag AG (XETRA:BNRGn) which was up 4.62% to settle at 55.470 and Rheinmetall AG (XETRA:RHMG) which gained 4.36% to close at 54.780.
The worst performers were Suedzucker Mannheim Ochsenfurt AG (XETRA:SZUG) which was down 5.12% to 14.180 in late trade, Tui AG NA (XETRA:TUIGn) which lost 4.35% to settle at 14.945 and Symrise AG Inh. O.N. (XETRA:SY1G) which was down 4.18% to 60.940 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Xing AG (XETRA:OBCGn) which rose 4.71% to 159.000, Sartorius AG VZO O.N. (XETRA:SATG_p) which was up 1.95% to settle at 201.150 and PSI AG F.Pr.U.Sys. NA (XETRA:PSAGn) which gained 1.42% to close at 12.505.
The worst performers were Aixtron SE NA O.N. (XETRA:AIXGn) which was down 6.43% to 5.571 in late trade, Freenet AG NA (XETRA:FNTGN) which lost 5.06% to settle at 31.340 and BB Biotech AG (XETRA:BIONn) which was down 3.81% to 288.200 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 430 to 310 and 36 ended unchanged.
Shares in Rheinmetall AG (XETRA:RHMG) rose to 52-week highs; up 4.36% or 2.290 to 54.780.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 2.69% to 17.16.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.40% or 4.30 to $1089.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.93% or 0.87 to hit $44.28 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.18% or 0.58 to trade at $49.01 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.0933, while EUR/GBP rose 0.76% to 0.7043.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.14% at 97.84.