Investing.com – Germany equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Utilities, Chemicals and Media sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Frankfurt, the DAX rose 2.65%, while the MDAX index gained 2.71%, and the TecDAX index added 2.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the DAX were K & S AG NA O.N. (XETRA:SDFGN), which rose 4.70% or 1.410 points to trade at 31.380 at the close. Bay.Motoren Werke AG ST (XETRA:BMWG) added 4.68% or 4.900 points to end at 109.500 and Bayer AG NA (XETRA:BAYGN) was up 4.20% or 5.350 points to 132.750 in late trade.
Biggest losers included E.ON SE NA (XETRA:EONGn), which lost 0.11% or 0.015 points to trade at 13.990 in late trade. Commerzbank AG O.N. (XETRA:CBKG) added 0.49% or 0.060 points to end at 12.325 and Muench. Rueckvers. VNA O.N. (XETRA:MUVGn) gained 0.72% or 1.250 points to 174.600.
The top performers on the MDAX were Deutsche Wohnen AG Inh (XETRA:DWNG) which rose 5.67% to 23.465, Prosiebensat 1 Media AG (XETRA:PSMGn) which was up 5.59% to settle at 47.225 and Tui AG NA (XETRA:TUIGn) which gained 5.34% to close at 17.160.
The worst performers were Talanx AG NA O.N. (XETRA:TLXGn) which was down 3.74% to 26.765 in late trade, Bilfinger SE O.N. (XETRA:GBFG) which lost 2.23% to settle at 41.575 and Kloeckner & Co SE NA (XETRA:KCOGn) which was down 0.67% to 8.361 at the close.
The top performers on the TecDAX were Morphosys AG O.N. (XETRA:MORG) which rose 5.51% to 65.110, Jenoptik AG O.N. (XETRA:JENG) which was up 5.49% to settle at 11.235 and Dialog Semiconductor (XETRA:DLGS) which gained 5.24% to close at 47.710.
The worst performers were PSI AG F.Pr.U.Sys. NA (XETRA:PSAGn) which was down 1.32% to 11.580 in late trade, Draegerwerk VZO O.N. (XETRA:DRWG_p) which lost 1.17% to settle at 101.500 and Aixtron SE NA O.N. (XETRA:AIXGn) which was down 0.71% to 6.545 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 627 to 111 and 37 ended unchanged on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The DAX volatility index, which measures the implied volatility of DAX options, was down 11.95% to 20.56.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.49% or 5.80 to $1188.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 1.03% or 0.61 to hit $59.55 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.19% or 0.12 to trade at $65.67 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.42% to 1.1219, while EUR/GBP fell 1.64% to 0.7268.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 94.81.