Investing.com – Poland equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Food and Media sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 rose 1.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were CD Projekt SA (WA:CDR), which rose 7.29% or 10.40 points to trade at 153.00 at the close. LPP SA (WA:LPPP) added 4.21% or 335.00 points to end at 8285.00 and mBank (WA:MBK) was up 3.67% or 16.00 points to 452.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP), which lost 2.16% or 0.20 points to trade at 9.08 in late trade. Grupa Azoty SA (WA:ATTP) declined 1.65% or 0.52 points to end at 30.98 and Alior Bank SA (WA:ALRR) shed 0.96% or 0.55 points to 56.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 246 to 226 and 188 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 2.96% or 1.38 to $47.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 2.35% or 1.32 to hit $57.58 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.43% or 5.40 to trade at $1259.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.08% to 4.2816, while USD/PLN fell 0.61% to 3.7490.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 96.127.