Polish equity market closed lower on Friday. The broad market benchmark, the WIG Index, lost 0.21%. Sector-wise, oil and gas (-1.47%) was the worst-performing group, while utilities (+1.19%) outpaced.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, fell by 0.45%. In the index basket, IT-company ASSECO POLAND (WSE: ACP) led the underperformers with a 3.63% drop, followed by chemical producer GRUPA AZOTY (WSE: ATT), bank BZ WBK (WSE: BZW) and railway freight transport operator PKP CARGO (WSE: PKP), plunging by 2.68%, 2.18% and 1.98% respectively. On the other side of the ledger, two coal miners BOGDANKA (WSE: LWB) and JSW (WSE: JSW) were the session's best performers, gaining 3.9% and 3.75% respectively. Among other major advancers were genco PGE (WSE: PGE) and footwear retailer CCC (WSE: CCC), jumping by 2.36% and 2.16% respectively.