Polish equity market was lower on Tuesday, with the broad market measure - the WIG index losing 0.13%. At the same time, the large liquid companies' benchmark- the WIG30 index ended today's session with a tiny increase of 0.09%.

Among the most liquid names, oil and gas names were the strongest group with PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) and LOTOS (WSE: LTS) advancing 5.24% and 3.36% respectively. Coal producer JSW (WSE: JSW) and media sector company TVN (WSE: TVN) also were star performers, gaining a respective 3.88% and 3.69%. At the same time, the biggest underperformer was bank ALIOR (WSE: ALR), the quotation of which went down 4.10%. It was followed by chemicals name GRUPA AZOTY (WSE: ATT) and utilities name PGE (WSE: PGE), declining 1.73% and 1.66% respectively.

The WIG sub-sector indices were mainly lower with the technology-oriented WIG-INFO (-1.12%) suffering the most.