Germany stocks higher at close of trade; DAX up 1.59% By Investing.com

Investing.com – Germany stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Frankfurt, the added 1.59%, while the index gained 1.52%, and the index climbed 1.19%.

The best performers of the session on the were Daimler Truck Holding AG (ETR:), which rose 6.49% or 1.76 points to trade at 28.79 at the close. Meanwhile, Delivery Hero AG (ETR:) added 4.08% or 1.21 points to end at 30.88 and Deutsche Bank AG NA O.N. (ETR:) was up 3.46% or 0.32 points to 9.54 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were HelloFresh SE (ETR:), which fell 3.26% or 1.26 points to trade at 37.42 at the close. Porsche Automobil Holding SE (ETR:) declined 2.79% or 2.10 points to end at 73.18 and Qiagen NV (ETR:) was down 0.47% or 0.21 points to 44.02.

The top performers on the MDAX were Kion Group AG (ETR:) which rose 5.93% to 48.74, Commerzbank AG O.N. (ETR:) which was up 4.93% to settle at 6.81 and Bechtle AG (ETR:) which gained 4.79% to close at 42.45.

The worst performers were Vantage Towers AG (ETR:) which was down 2.42% to 29.02 in late trade, K&S AG (ETR:) which lost 1.99% to settle at 29.54 and Uniper SE (ETR:) which was down 1.81% to 23.82 at the close.

The top performers on the TecDAX were Suse SA (ETR:) which rose 6.08% to 30.00, Bechtle AG (ETR:) which was up 4.79% to settle at 42.45 and Aixtron SE (ETR:) which gained 4.78% to close at 25.20.

The worst performers were Verbio Vereinigte Bioenergie AG (ETR:) which was down 5.49% to 52.55 in late trade, Vantage Towers AG (ETR:) which lost 2.42% to settle at 29.02 and Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG (ETR:) which was down 0.60% to 2.96 at the close.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 501 to 188 and 78 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 6.28% to 25.81.

Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.25% or 4.55 to $1,818.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.56% or 0.63 to hit $111.19 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.44% or 0.50 to trade at $113.74 a barrel.

EUR/USD was up 1.11% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.18% to 0.85.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.80% at 103.37.