Polish equity market closed higher on higher. The broad market measure, the WIG Index, rose by 1.44%. The WIG sub-sector indices were mainly higher with oil and gas (+3.20%) outperforming.

The large-cap WIG30 Index went up 1.67%. Within the index components, FMCG-wholesaler EUROCASH (WSE: EUR) was the best-performing name, climbing by 7.3%, more than erasing the previous day's losses of 3.73%. It was followed by oil and gas producer PGNIG (WSE: PGN), oil refiner PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) and three banking names PKO BP (WSE: PKO), PEKAO (WSE: PEO) and BZ WBK (WSE: BZW), which added between 2.84% and 4.5%. On the other side of the ledger, clothing retailer LPP (WSE: LPP), railway freight transport operator PKP CARGO (WSE: PKP) and bank ALIOR (WSE: ALR) were the biggest decliners, dropping by 1.21%, 1.06% and 0.95% respectively.