Polish equity market closed lower on Wednesday. The broad market measure, the WIG index, lost 0.15%. Sector-wise, telecommunication stocks (-0.76%) and oil and gas sector names (-0.64%) fared the worst. On the contrary, chemicals (+0.48%) outperformed.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, fell by 0.28%. The decliners were led by EUROCASH (WSE: EUR), which tumbled by 2.19%. Other major laggards included TAURON PE (WSE: TPE), PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) and BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB), plunging by 1.6%, 1.45% and 1.31% respectively. On the other side of the ledger, LPP (WSE: LPP) and PGNIG (WSE: PGN) recorded the strongest daily results, advancing by 0.97% and 0.73% respectively.