Investing.com – Poland equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Food, Oil & Gas and Information Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 rose 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were Kernel Holding SA (WA:KER), which rose 3.04% or 1.80 points to trade at 61.00 at the close. Synthos SA (WA:SNS) added 1.67% or 0.080 points to end at 4.880 and Grupa Lotos SA (WA:LTSP) was up 1.47% or 0.87 points to 59.88 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kruk SA (WA:KRU), which lost 2.59% or 8.05 points to trade at 302.95 in late trade. Tauron Polska Energia SA (WA:TPE) declined 2.28% or 0.090 points to end at 3.850 and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (WA:PGE) shed 2.00% or 0.27 points to 13.26.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 294 to 220 and 167 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.68% or 0.83 to $50.13 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.02% or 0.56 to hit $55.72 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.10% or 1.33 to trade at $1329.33 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.14% to 4.2777, while USD/PLN fell 0.07% to 3.6019.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 92.35.