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Germany's benchmark DAX index little changed

Xinhua, February 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The benchmark DAX index at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Wednesday was little changed and closed at 10,752.11 points.

The blue-chip index only lost 1.72 points. Negotiations on Greece and Ukraine paralyzed the index, according to the German business daily Handelsblatt.

Trading at the stock exchange turned out to be less active and the turnover stood at 2.73 billion euros (around 3.09 billion U.S. dollars). Prices of the DAX member shares changed by a small margin on the whole.

The top five risers went up by around 1 percent, with adidas AG advancing by 1.28 percent. The utilities company RWE AG St also rose by 1.28 percent. Infineon Technologies AG, a semiconductor producer, climbed by 0.9 percent. K+S Aktiengesellschaft, a standard and speciality fertilizers company, gained by 0.9 percent. Deutsche Boerse AG was up by 0.86 percent.

Deutsche Post AG was the top faller, down by 1.71 percent. Continental AG lost 1.08 percent. Deutsche Telekom AG slipped by 0.86 percent. Deutsche Bank AG and Merck KGaA, a pharmaceutical, chemical and life science company went down by 0.41 percent and 0.37 percent.

BASF SE was the most traded share of the day with a turnover of 207.12 million euros. (1 euro = 1.13 U.S. dollars) Endit