Investing.com – Poland equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Food, Basic Materials and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 declined 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were mBank (WA:MBK), which rose 2.79% or 10.30 points to trade at 379.95 at the close. Bank Zachodni WBK SA (WA:BZW) added 2.56% or 8.80 points to end at 353.00 and Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP) was up 2.55% or 0.16 points to 6.43 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa SA (WA:JSW), which lost 3.98% or 2.88 points to trade at 69.42 in late trade. Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA (WA:PKO) declined 2.44% or 0.80 points to end at 32.05 and Tauron Polska Energia SA (WA:TPE) shed 2.10% or 0.070 points to 3.270.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 302 to 233 and 186 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.45% or 0.24 to $53.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.59% or 0.33 to hit $55.90 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.35 to trade at $1276.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.02% to 4.2473, while USD/PLN fell 0.09% to 4.0025.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 100.56.