Investing.com – China equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Life Insurance, Banking and Travel & Leisure sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite added 1.67%, while the SZSE Component index added 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Eagle Mining (SS:600711), which rose 10.06% or 0.870 points to trade at 9.520 at the close. Lanhai Medical Investment Co Ltd (SS:600896) added 10.05% or 0.640 points to end at 7.010 and Zhenhai Petrochemical Engineering Co Ltd (SS:603637) was up 10.00% or 2.10 points to 23.09 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hna Innovation Hainan Co Ltd B (SS:900955), which lost 10.09% or 0.047 points to trade at 0.419 in late trade. Shanghai LongYun Advertising & Media Co Ltd (SS:603729) declined 10.01% or 5.78 points to end at 51.98 and Lawton Develop (SS:600209) shed 9.97% or 1.020 points to 9.210.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Sgis Songshan Co Ltd (SZ:000717) which rose 10.05% to 6.57, Sumavision Technologies (SZ:300079) which was up 9.95% to settle at 4.09 and Sansteel MinGuang Co Ltd Fujian (SZ:002110) which gained 7.83% to close at 18.74.
The worst performers were BI of Oriental Nations (SZ:300166) which was down 10.01% to 15.74 in late trade, JANUS Dongguan Precision Components Co Ltd (SZ:300083) which lost 10.00% to settle at 6.39 and Lens Technology Co Ltd (SZ:300433) which was down 9.98% to 21.01 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 875 to 450 and 42 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was unchanged 0.00% to 27.07.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.06% or 0.80 to $1339.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.28% or 0.81 to hit $64.23 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.28% or 0.88 to trade at $69.53 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.14% to 6.2968, while EUR/CNY fell 0.08% to 7.7632.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 89.48.