Investing.com – Poland equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Food and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 declined 0.94%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP), which rose 3.33% or 0.24 points to trade at 7.45 at the close. Cyfrowy Polsat SA (WA:CPS) added 2.20% or 0.53 points to end at 24.67 and Kruk SA (WA:KRU) was up 1.32% or 4.00 points to 308.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (WA:PGN), which lost 3.07% or 0.20 points to trade at 6.32 in late trade. Kernel Holding SA (WA:KER) declined 3.01% or 2.01 points to end at 64.85 and Energa SA (WA:ENGP) shed 2.15% or 0.23 points to 10.47.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 275 to 238 and 169 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.38% or 0.62 to $45.55 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.26% or 0.60 to hit $48.23 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.18% or 2.26 to trade at $1243.54 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.27% to 4.2298, while USD/PLN rose 0.05% to 3.7069.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 95.50.