Investing.com – Germany stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Utilities, Technology and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX lost 0.99%, while the MDAX index declined 0.62%, and the TecDAX index declined 1.03%.
The best performers of the session on the DAX were Deutsche Boerse NA O.N. (DE:DB1Gn), which rose 5.82% or 4.110 points to trade at 74.780 at the close. Meanwhile, Siemens AG NA (DE:SIEGn) added 1.39% or 1.250 points to end at 91.210 and Heidelbergcement AG O.N. (DE:HEIG) was up 1.37% or 1.060 points to 78.460 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were RWE AG ST O.N. (DE:RWEG), which fell 3.66% or 0.440 points to trade at 11.585 at the close. Linde AG O.N. (DE:LING) declined 3.40% or 4.450 points to end at 126.250 and E.ON SE NA (DE:EONGn) was down 2.97% or 0.258 points to 8.416.
The top performers on the MDAX were Leoni AG NA O.N. (DE:LEOGn) which rose 2.84% to 31.490, Bilfinger SE O.N. (DE:GBFG) which was up 2.66% to settle at 38.625 and Stroeer SE (DE:SAXG) which gained 1.22% to close at 44.640.
The worst performers were Fraport AG (DE:FRAG) which was down 6.11% to 50.230 in late trade, Hugo Boss AG NA O.N. (DE:BOSSn) which lost 3.45% to settle at 55.660 and Steinhoff International Holdings NV (DE:SNHG) which was down 1.99% to 5.16 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were CompuGroup Medical AG O.N. (DE:COPMa) which rose 4.26% to 36.000, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (DE:AFXG) which was up 1.65% to settle at 29.830 and Evotec AG O.N. (DE:EVTG) which gained 1.48% to close at 3.508.
The worst performers were Dialog Semiconductor (DE:DLGS) which was down 8.60% to 27.250 in late trade, Adva Optical Networking SE (DE:ADAG) which lost 3.53% to settle at 8.837 and Drillisch AG O.N. (DE:DRIG) which was down 2.24% to 35.125 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 568 to 301 and 25 ended unchanged.
Shares in Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (DE:AFXG) rose to all time highs; rising 1.65% or 0.485 to 29.830.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 2.87% to 23.63 a new 1-month high.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.82% or 10.65 to $1281.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.69% or 0.30 to hit $43.95 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $44.96 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.03% to 1.1495, while EUR/GBP rose 0.27% to 0.7931.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 93.24.