Polish equity market demonstrated growth on Wednesday. The broad market benchmark, the WIG Index, gained 0.45%. Sector-wise, oil and gas sector (-1.69%) posted the biggest decline, while food sector (+3.56%) and materials (+3.51%) recorded the largest rises.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, rose by 0.5%. Within the index's components, KERNEL (WSE: KER) jumped by 7.5% and became the session best performer, followed by PKP CARGO (WSE: PKP), EUROCASH (WSE: EUR) and KGHM (WSE: KGH), which advanced between 4.01% and 4.81%. At the same time, ENERGA (WSE: ENG) was the sharpest decliner, posting a 3.25% drop. The other two big losers were PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) and PZU (WSE: PZU), falling by 2.31% and 1.66% respectively.