Polish equity market closed higher on Wednesday. The broad market measure, the WIG Index, added 0.4%. Sector-wise, materials stocks (+2.60%) fared the best, while chemicals sector names (-0.98%) tumbled the most.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, rose by 0.52%. Within the index components, utilities names ENEA (WSE: ENA) and PGE (WSE: PGE) led the gainers, jumping by 4.11% and 3.67% respectively. Other major advancers were copper producer KGHM (WSE: KGH) and two coal miners JSW (WSE: JSW) and BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB), which added between 2.5% and 3.49%. On the other side of the ledger, the session's biggest decliners were footwear retailer CCC (WSE: CCC) and two banking sector names MBANK (WSE: MBK) and BZ WBK (WSE: BZW), which lost between 1.86% and 3.27%.