Polish equity market surged on Friday. The broad market measure, the WIG Index, grew by 1.68%. All sectors in the WIG gained, with materials (+5.02%) outperforming.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, advanced 1.97%. There were only four decliners among the index components. IT-company ASSECO POLAND (WSE: ACP) was the worst-performing name, slumping by 0.58%. Other laggards included videogame developer CD PROJEKT (WSE: CDR), oil and gas producer PGNIG (WSE: PGN) and bank PKO BP (WSE: PKO), losing 0.41%, 0.39% and 0.17% respectively. On the other side of the ledger, coking coal miner JSW (WSE: JSW) became the biggest advancer, climbing by 9.76%. It was followed by bank MILLENNIUM (WSE: MIL), thermal coal miner BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB) and genco ENERGA (WSE: ENG), which rose by 7.03%, 6.29% and 5.38% respectively.