Investing.com – Poland equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Food sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 rose 1.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen SA (WA:PZU), which rose 4.05% or 1.79 points to trade at 46.03 at the close. Synthos SA (WA:SNS) added 3.13% or 0.150 points to end at 4.940 and OrangePL (WA:OPL) was up 2.36% or 0.13 points to 5.64 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PKP Cargo (WA:PKPP), which lost 6.25% or 3.40 points to trade at 51.00 in late trade. Bank Zachodni WBK SA (WA:BZW) declined 1.93% or 6.90 points to end at 350.00 and KGHM Polska Miedz SA (WA:KGH) shed 0.91% or 1.10 points to 119.48.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 280 to 213 and 184 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 2.09% or 1.10 to $53.74 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.69% or 1.00 to hit $60.30 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.22 to trade at $1271.82 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.13% to 4.2476, while USD/PLN rose 0.49% to 3.6685.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 94.96.