Investing.com – Germany stocks were mixed after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Retail, Utilities and Transportation & Logistics sectors led shares higher while losses in the Construction, Software and Media sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX rose 0.63%, while the MDAX index climbed 0.74%, and the TecDAX index fell 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Delivery Hero AG (ETR:DHER), which rose 7.28% or 2.06 points to trade at 30.36 at the close. Meanwhile, HelloFresh SE (ETR:HFGG) added 4.78% or 1.50 points to end at 32.85 and Zalando SE (ETR:ZALG) was up 4.07% or 1.32 points to 33.75 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Deutsche Boerse AG (ETR:DB1Gn), which fell 1.57% or 2.60 points to trade at 163.25 at the close. SAP SE (ETR:SAPG) declined 1.47% or 1.35 points to end at 90.63 and Siemens Healthineers AG (ETR:SHLG) was down 1.36% or 0.74 points to 53.76.
The top performers on the MDAX were Rational AG (ETR:RAAG) which rose 4.67% to 560.00, Deutsche Lufthansa AG (ETR:LHAG) which was up 4.33% to settle at 6.78 and Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (ETR:PSMGn) which gained 3.81% to close at 9.98.
The worst performers were CTS Eventim AG (ETR:EVDG) which was down 6.06% to 57.40 in late trade, Aurubis AG (ETR:NAFG) which lost 2.07% to settle at 85.22 and Siemens Energy AG (ETR:ENR1n) which was down 1.88% to 16.93 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were 11 AG (ETR:1U1) which rose 2.36% to 19.50, Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG (ETR:O2Dn) which was up 2.35% to settle at 2.92 and Morphosys AG O.N. (ETR:MORG) which gained 1.69% to close at 18.94.
The worst performers were Nordex SE O.N. (ETR:NDXG) which was down 17.05% to 10.41 in late trade, S&T AG (ETR:SANT1) which lost 2.91% to settle at 15.69 and Verbio Vereinigte Bioenergie AG (ETR:VBKG) which was down 1.99% to 49.30 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 474 to 224 and 66 ended unchanged.
Shares in Nordex SE O.N. (ETR:NDXG) fell to 52-week lows; falling 17.05% or 2.14 to 10.41.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 5.30% to 25.21 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.12% or 20.84 to $1,844.56 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.14% or 0.15 to hit $109.92 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.14 to trade at $110.83 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.74% to 1.07, while EUR/GBP fell 0.68% to 0.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.52% at 102.39.