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Germany's benchmark DAX index closes slightly down

Xinhua, February 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

The benchmark DAX index at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Tuesday closed slightly down by 0.25 percent.

Greece and the European Union have not yet reached an agreement on Greece's bailout deal and the tension is building at the stock exchange, according to the German business daily Handelsblatt. The blue-chip index lost 27.61 points and closed at 10,895.62 points.

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co.rose by 2.4 percent, topping the list of risers. The utilities companies E.ON SE and RWE AG St added 1 percent and 0.92 percent, respectively. Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, the health care group, climbed by 0.64 percent. Merck KGaA, a pharmaceutical, chemical and life science company, went up by 0.56 percent.

On the other hand, adidas AG dropped by 2.15 percent. LANXESS AG, a specialty chemicals company, lost 2.15 percent. ThyssenKrupp AG slipped by 1.67 percent. K+S Aktiengesellschaft, a standard and speciality fertilizers company, slid by 1.66 percent and Deutsche Bank AG went down by 1.49 percent.

The turnover stood at 3.22 billion euros (3.67 billion U.S. dollars ). Siemens AG was the most traded share of the day with a turnover of 254.6 million euros. (1 euro = 1.14 U.S. dollars) Enditem