Polish equity market closed higher on Wednesday. The broad market measure, the WIG Index, added 0.73%. Sector-wise, utilities stocks (+1.71%) fared the best, while oil and gas sector names (-1.14%) tumbled the most.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, advanced by 0.87%. Within the index components, bank ALIOR (WSE: ALR) led the gainers with a 4.62% surge. It was followed by chemical producer GRUPA AZOTY (WSE: ATT), bank MBANK (WSE: MBK) and genco PGE (WSE: PGE), which grew by 3.87%, 2.95% and 2.74% respectively. At the same time, the session's biggest decliners were coking coal miner JSW (WSE: JSW), oil refiner PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN) and property developer GTC (WSE: GTC), which fell by 3.76%, 1.54% and 1.01% respectively.