Investing.com – Germany stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrials, Media and Food & Beverages sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX added 0.06%, while the MDAX index gained 1.65%, and the TecDAX index gained 0.52%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (DE:PSMGn), which rose 1.58% or 0.480 points to trade at 30.860 at the close. Meanwhile, Henkel & Co KGaA AG Pref (DE:HNKG_p) added 1.52% or 1.60 points to end at 106.55 and Commerzbank AG O.N. (DE:CBKG) was up 1.29% or 0.164 points to 12.836 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG), which fell 2.38% or 0.385 points to trade at 15.800 at the close. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (DE:LHAG) declined 1.22% or 0.330 points to end at 26.750 and E.ON SE NA (DE:EONGn) was down 1.19% or 0.096 points to 8.004.
The top performers on the MDAX were Airbus Group SE (F:AIRG) which rose 10.53% to 93.070, Steinhoff International Holdings NV (DE:SNHG) which was up 4.41% to settle at 0.38 and MTU Aero Engines NA O.N. (DE:MTXGn) which gained 3.52% to close at 138.30.
The worst performers were Innogy SE (DE:IGY) which was down 2.96% to 30.490 in late trade, Aurubis AG (DE:NAFG) which lost 1.55% to settle at 73.500 and Krones AG O.N. (DE:KRNG) which was down 1.53% to 109.500 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Wirecard AG (DE:WDIG) which rose 4.03% to 98.100, Aixtron SE (DE:AIXGn) which was up 3.46% to settle at 12.260 and Jenoptik AG (DE:JENG) which gained 2.94% to close at 28.000.
The worst performers were Nordex SE O.N. (DE:NDXG) which was down 6.04% to 9.584 in late trade, Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which lost 2.36% to settle at 14.465 and Draegerwerk VZO O.N. (DE:DRWG_p) which was down 2.04% to 81.650 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 466 to 262 and 75 ended unchanged.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 0.29% to 20.69.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.31% or 4.20 to $1353.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.35% or 0.21 to hit $60.81 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.56% or 0.36 to trade at $64.00 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.22% to 1.2477, while EUR/GBP fell 0.17% to 0.8881.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 88.72.