Investing.com – Poland equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 gained 2.41% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP), which rose 7.92% or 0.51 points to trade at 6.95 at the close. Bank Zachodni WBK SA (WA:BZW) added 5.86% or 20.90 points to end at 377.30 and mBank (WA:MBK) was up 5.11% or 20.35 points to 418.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CD Projekt SA (WA:CDR), which lost 1.42% or 0.95 points to trade at 65.80 in late trade. Asseco Poland SA (WA:ACPP) declined 0.91% or 0.50 points to end at 54.70 and Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa SA (WA:JSW) gained 0.18% or 0.13 points to 72.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 271 to 265 and 182 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.39% or 0.19 to $49.04 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.31% or 0.16 to hit $51.97 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.91% or 11.59 to trade at $1265.91 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.55% to 4.2227, while USD/PLN fell 1.20% to 3.8601.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 98.66.