Investing.com – China equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Travel & Leisure, Retailers and Technology Hardware & Equipment sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite added 0.66%, while the SZSE Component index gained 0.86%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Chutian Exp (SS:600035), which rose 10.08% or 0.600 points to trade at 6.550 at the close. Yueyang Paper (SS:600963) added 10.07% or 0.740 points to end at 8.090 and Lingyuan Steel (SS:600231) was up 10.07% or 0.580 points to 6.340 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sinotex Invest (SS:600061), which lost 9.99% or 3.400 points to trade at 30.640 in late trade. Sinomach Auto (SS:600335) declined 9.99% or 3.790 points to end at 34.140 and Atlantic (SS:600558) shed 5.14% or 0.990 points to 18.280.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Luoniushan Co Ltd (SZ:000735) which rose 10.07% to 8.31, Guangdong Weihua Corp (SZ:002240) which was up 10.04% to settle at 11.62 and Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co Ltd (SZ:002648) which gained 10.03% to close at 13.05.
The worst performers were Zhejiang Yasha Decoration Co Ltd (SZ:002375) which was down 10.00% to 23.66 in late trade, Zhongli Science and Technology Group Co Ltd (SZ:002309) which lost 10.00% to settle at 30.05 and PKU HealthCare Corp Ltd (SZ:000788) which was down 9.99% to 18.65 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 722 to 249 on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was down 4.17% to 28.29.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.16% or 1.80 to $1105.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.15% or 0.07 to hit $50.37 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $56.63 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.00% to 6.2097, while EUR/CNY rose 0.01% to 6.7254.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.03% at 98.21.