Polish equity market closed higher on Thursday. The broad market measure, the WIG index, advanced by 0.29%. Sector-wise, materials (+2.91%) fared the best, while media stocks (-0.76%) fell the most.

The large-cap stocks' benchmark, the WIG30 Index, added 0.27%. In the index basket, coking coal miner JSW (WSE: JSW) was the strongest performer, climbing by 12.43%. It was followed by thermal coal miner BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB), FMCG-wholesaler EUROCASH (WSE: EUR) and genco ENERGA (WSE: ENG), which jumped by 4.42%, 3.47% and 2.03% respectively. At the same time, the biggest decliners were clothing retailer LPP (WSE: LPP), bank MBANK (WSE: MBK) and genco PGE (WSE: PGE), dropping by 1.17%, 1.1% and 1.09% respectively.