The biggest winner among Germany's 30 largest listed companies was mail and logistics company Deutsche Post, increasing by 0.42 percent, followed by pharmaceutical company Merck with 0.31 percent and technology giant Siemens with 0.01 percent.
Shares of Siemens Energy fell by 1.53 percent. The spin-off of German technology giant Siemens was the biggest loser at the start of trading on Tuesday.
The number of persons in employment in Germany in the second quarter of 2021 increased by seasonally adjusted 75,000 or 0.2 percent on the previous quarter and remained unchanged year-on-year, the country's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced.
The yield on German ten-year bonds increased 0.0200 percentage points to minus 0.4880 percent and the euro was trading almost unchanged at 1.1778 U.S. dollars, decreasing by 0.01 percent on Tuesday morning.
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