Eon and RWE were among the biggest gainers on Germany’s benchmark stock index Monday amid signs that a government-assigned commission may be willing to have taxpayers share some of the utilities’ nuclear clean-up costs as the nation exits atomic power, Bloomberg News reported.
Eon jumped8.4 percent in Frankfurt trading, the most since 2008, to close at 9.16 euros,leading the DAX Index’s 2.7 percent gain. RWE rose 4.4 percent at 11.92 euros.The utilities, Germany’s biggest, were the worst-performing stocks in the indexlast year.
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