Investing.com – Poland equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Media and Food sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 declined 0.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the WIG30 were PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (WA:PGE), which rose 3.28% or 0.37 points to trade at 11.64 at the close. CD Projekt SA (WA:CDR) added 2.60% or 4.95 points to end at 195.05 and Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (WA:PGN) was up 1.89% or 0.14 points to 7.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CCC SA (WA:CCCP), which lost 4.20% or 7.70 points to trade at 175.50 in late trade. Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP) declined 3.57% or 0.32 points to end at 8.65 and Santander Bank Polska SA (WA:SPL1) shed 3.23% or 12.00 points to 359.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 246 to 196 and 212 ended unchanged on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.87% or 1.53 to $54.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.99% or 1.22 to hit $62.42 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.10 to trade at $1310.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.07% to 4.2890, while USD/PLN rose 0.03% to 3.7561.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 95.593.