Investing.com – Poland stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Construction and Food sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Warsaw, the WIG30 added 1.13%.
The best performers of the session on the WIG30 were Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen SA (WA:PZU), which rose 4.05% or 1.79 points to trade at 46.03 at the close. Meanwhile, Synthos SA (WA:SNS) added 3.13% or 0.150 points to end at 4.940 and OrangePL (WA:OPL) was up 2.36% or 0.13 points to 5.64 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PKP Cargo (WA:PKPP), which fell 6.25% or 3.40 points to trade at 51.00 at the close. Bank Zachodni WBK SA (WA:BZW) declined 1.93% or 6.90 points to end at 350.00 and KGHM Polska Miedz SA (WA:KGH) was down 0.91% or 1.10 points to 119.48.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Warsaw Stock Exchange by 280 to 213 and 184 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 2.09% or 1.10 to $53.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.70% or 1.01 to hit $60.31 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.11 to trade at $1271.71 a troy ounce.
EUR/PLN was down 0.13% to 4.2476, while USD/PLN rose 0.49% to 3.6684.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 94.96.