Germany stocks lower at close of trade; DAX down 0.57% By Investing.com

Investing.com – Germany stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Frankfurt, the fell 0.57%, while the index declined 1.42%, and the index lost 0.66%.

The best performers of the session on the were Puma SE (ETR:), which rose 2.71% or 1.34 points to trade at 50.72 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresenius Medical Care KGAA ST (ETR:) added 1.24% or 0.37 points to end at 30.20 and Fresenius SE & Co KGAA O.N. (ETR:) was up 0.92% or 0.24 points to 26.44 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Porsche Automobil Holding SE (ETR:), which fell 2.33% or 1.36 points to trade at 57.00 at the close. Airbus Group SE (ETR:) declined 2.19% or 2.42 points to end at 108.32 and Covestro AG (ETR:) was down 1.65% or 0.61 points to 36.32.

The top performers on the MDAX were HelloFresh SE (ETR:) which rose 1.70% to 24.59, Sixt SE (ETR:) which was up 1.54% to settle at 92.10 and Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (ETR:) which gained 0.72% to close at 125.85.

The worst performers were K&S AG (ETR:) which was down 7.04% to 19.15 in late trade, Gerresheimer AG (ETR:) which lost 6.33% to settle at 61.40 and ADTRAN Holdingsa Inc (ETR:) which was down 4.96% to 18.20 at the close.

The top performers on the TecDAX were CompuGroup Medical AG O.N. (ETR:) which rose 2.14% to 37.28, Morphosys AG O.N. (ETR:) which was up 1.18% to settle at 16.24 and Qiagen NV (ETR:) which gained 0.80% to close at 46.43.

The worst performers were ADTRAN Holdingsa Inc (ETR:) which was down 4.96% to 18.20 in late trade, Siltronic AG (ETR:) which lost 4.34% to settle at 76.00 and Freenet AG NA (ETR:) which was down 3.67% to 20.20 at the close.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by 490 to 188 and 83 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was up 4.38% to 22.39.

Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.82% or 14.55 to $1,796.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 2.29% or 1.70 to hit $72.55 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 2.02% or 1.60 to trade at $77.75 a barrel.

EUR/USD was up 0.53% to 1.05, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.21% to 0.86.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.55% at 104.96.