Polish equities continued to grow for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. The broad market measure, the WIG Index, added 0.56%. The WIG sub-sector indices were mainly higher with mining stock gauge (+4.84%) outperforming.
The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, advanced 0.72%. In the index basket, agricultural producer KERNEL (WSE: KER), chemical producer GRUPA AZOTY (WSE: ATT) and copper producer KGHM (WSE: KGH) were the strongest performers, jumping by 6.34%, 5.97% and 5.64%. Other major outperformers were coking coal miner JSW (WSE: JSW), FMCG-wholesaler EUROCASH (WSE: EUR), chemical producers SYNTHOS (WSE: SNS) and videogame developer CD PROJEKT (WSE: CDR), which added between 2.74% and 3.3%. On the other side of the ledger, oil refiner PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) fared the worst, tumbling by 3.22%. It was followed by oil and gas producer PGNIG (WSE: PGN), genco ENERGA (WSE: ENG), developing sector name GTC (WSE: GTC) and thermal coal miner BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB), which lost between 1.02% and 1.91%.