Excerpt from: Individual Equities CFDs and Spread Bets
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| December 27, 2006 | | German individual equities gain, leading stock market higher | German stocks are up on the stock market, led by car makers DaimlerChrysler and BMW. Spread bets and CFDs on individual equities, as well as the German stock market in general, could benefit from favouring. Bloomberg reports: German stocks climbed, posting the biggest rise among Western Europe benchmarks. Automakers including DaimlerChrysler AG paced the advance after oil prices fell. ThyssenKrupp AG also gained. The benchmark DAX Index added 76.05, or 1.2 percent, to 6579.18 at 2:51 p.m. in Frankfurt. The HDAX Index of the country's 110 largest companies climbed 1.1 percent to 3391.70. The German market was closed over the previous two days. DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth-largest carmaker, added 61 cents, or 1.3 percent, to 46.71 euros. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world's biggest maker of luxury cars, added 79 cents, or 1.9 percent, to 43.37 euros.
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