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

The index increased 0.90% and the market gained 0.722% at the Frankfurt close.

Merck KGaA, which gained 2.80% (or 4.70 points) to close at 172.40, was the best performer of the session. SAP SE (ETR 🙂 added 2.54 percent or 2.28 to trade at 92.02 HelloFresh SE Late trade saw an increase of 2.34% (or 0.79 points) in ETR: to 34.60

They were also the session’s worst performers Hannover Rueck SE (ETR) fell 3.07%, or 4.40 points, to close at 139.05 Deutsche Bank AG NA O.N. (ETR) fell 1.37%, or 0.13 points, to finish at 9.36 Daimler Truck Holding AG (ETR) fell 1.16%, or 0.33 points, to 28.03.

Gerresheimer AG – ETR: climbed 2.98% to reach 67.45; Carl Zeiss Meditec AG – ETR: jumped 2.80% to settle in at 123.15. TeamViewer AG (ETR 🙂 closed at 12.45 with a gain of 2.30%

These were the worst performers Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG (ETR:), which fell 4.24% to 2.78 late trade. LEG Immobilien AG (ETR:), which fell 3.25% to settle in at 97.62 Fuchs Petrolub AG VZO PREF (ETR:), which fell 1.80% to 27.26 by the end.

The TecDAX’s top performers were Morphosys AG O.N. AG O.N.

Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG was among the worst-performing companies (ETR:), which fell by 4.24% and 2.78 respectively in late trading. Suse SA (ETR.) fell 4.16% to 26.74 Siltronic AG (ETR:), which fell 1.48% to 85.35 by the end.

By 389 to 302, rising stocks outnumbered those on Frankfurt Stock Exchange, while 77 ended the same.

Fuchs Petrolub AG VZO Pref shares (ETR) dropped to 52-week lows. This was a 1.80% drop or 0.50 from 27.26.

The, which is used to measure implied volatility for DAX options was lower by 3.67%, reaching 27.00

The June delivery of Gold Futures was down 0.8%, or 1.53, to $1839.67 per troy ounce. Other commodities traded included Crude oil, which fell 0.51%, or 0.56, to reach $109.33/barrel, and the July Brent Oil contract, which fell 0.55%, or 0.62, to trade at $111.42/barrel.

EUR/USD was steady at 1.06 with a 0.33 percent change, but EUR/GBP was unaffected by the 0.40% increase in EUR/USD to 0.85.

US Dollar Index Futures were up 0.3% at 103.13