Investing.com – Poland stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Food, Basic Materials and Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 fell 0.23%.
The best performers of the session on the WIG30 were mBank SA (WA:MBK), which rose 2.79% or 10.30 points to trade at 379.95 at the close. Meanwhile, Bank Zachodni WBK SA (WA:BZW) added 2.56% or 8.80 points to end at 353.00 and Bank Millennium SA (WA:MILP) was up 2.55% or 0.16 points to 6.43 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Jastrzebska Spotka Weglowa SA (WA:JSW), which fell 3.98% or 2.88 points to trade at 69.42 at the close. Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA (WA:PKO) declined 2.44% or 0.80 points to end at 32.05 and Tauron Polska Energia SA (WA:TPE) was down 2.10% or 0.070 points to 3.270.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Warsaw Stock Exchange by 302 to 233 and 186 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.45% or 0.24 to $53.16 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.59% or 0.33 to hit $55.90 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.35 to trade at $1276.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.02% to 4.2473, while USD/PLN fell 0.09% to 4.0026.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 100.56.