Polish equity market continued to decline on Thursday. The broad market measure, the WIG index, lost 0.25%. From a sector perspective, materials (-2.52%) fared the worst, while food sector (+2.67%) was the best-performing group.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, declined by 0.56%. Within the WIG30 Index components, banking sector name MBANK (WSE: MBK) fared the worst, slumping by 3.34%. It was followed by copper producer KGHM (WSE: KGH), oil and gas company PGNIG (WSE: PGN) and IT-company ASSECO POLAND (WSE: ACP), which fell by 2.8%, 2.4% and 2.31% respectively. On the other side of the ledger, agricultural producer KERNEL (WSE: KER) and footwear retailer CCC (WSE: CCC) were the best performers, advancing 4.44% and 4.19% respectively.