Investing.com – China equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Mobile and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite lost 0.40%, while the SZSE Component index declined 1.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Nanjing Inform Storage Equipment Group Co Ltd (SS:603066), which rose 10.03% or 1.12 points to trade at 12.29 at the close. Suzhou Douson Drilling & Production Equipment Co Ltd (SS:603800) added 10.01% or 2.000 points to end at 21.990 and Hainan Haiqi Transportation Group Co Ltd (SS:603069) was up 9.98% or 1.140 points to 12.560 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eagle Mining (SS:600711), which lost 8.82% or 1.030 points to trade at 10.650 in late trade. Chahua Modern Housewares Co Ltd (SS:603615) declined 6.96% or 1.17 points to end at 15.65 and SDIC Zhonglu Fruit Juice Co Ltd (SS:600962) shed 6.94% or 0.760 points to 10.190.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Lander Sports Development Co Ltd (SZ:000558) which rose 5.58% to 5.11, Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology Co Ltd (SZ:002157) which was up 4.73% to settle at 5.09 and Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd (SZ:002024) which gained 4.57% to close at 15.32.
The worst performers were Shenzhen Techand Eco Environment (SZ:300197) which was down 10.05% to 5.37 in late trade, Dalian Zeus Entertainment (SZ:002354) which lost 10.00% to settle at 11.88 and Inner Mongolia Hotision Monsod (SZ:300355) which was down 9.99% to 8.20 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 897 to 435 and 46 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was up 0.14% to 21.42.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.11% or 1.40 to $1303.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.49% or 0.35 to hit $70.36 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.56% or 0.44 to trade at $78.35 a barrel.
USD/CNY was up 0.15% to 6.3897, while EUR/CNY fell 0.09% to 7.4714.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 93.91.