Polish equity market continued its decline on Thursday. The broad market benchmark - the WIG index declined by 0.70%, while the large liquid companies' indicator - the WIG30 index lost 0.96%.

PGNIG (WSE: PGN) posted the largest decline (8.35%), weighted down by the announcement the company failed to achieve a price cut in six months of negotiations with Russian Gazprom and filed for arbitration with the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal concerning a long-term supply contract. Aside from that, PKN ORLEN (WSE: PKN), KGHM (WSE: KGH) and LOTOS (WSE: LTS) also saw substantial selling pressure, losing 2.85%, 2.60% and 2.38% respectively. On the contrary, CYFROWY POLSAT (WSE: CPS) gained 3.02% and topped the list of the best performers among the WIG30 index basket's components on the back of strong quarterly results. It was followed by its peer TVN (WSE: TVN), which went up 2.87%. In addition, good first-quarter earnings report uplifted quotations of TAURON PE (WSE: TPE), up 1.04%.

Turning to the performance of the WIG sub-sector indices, the benchmarks for the oil and gas companies (the WIG-PALIWA index) and the basic material producers (the WIG-SUROWC index) were the laggards, declining a respective 4.46% and 1.93%. At the same time, the measures for the media sector names (the WIG-MEDIA index) and the construction sector stocks (the WIG-BUDOW index) were the strongest performers, climbing up 2.55% and 1.72% respectively.

Major U.S. stock-indexes rose on Thursday as weekly jobless claims fell and the dollar slid to its lowest in nearly four months. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 264,000 last week, while the 4-week jobless average stayed near a 15-year low. In the same time, the dollar was at its lowest since January against a basket of currencies of major U.S. trading partners.

Almost all of the Dow stocks are trading in positive area (29 of 30). Top looser - Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO, -0.42%) Top gainer - Microsoft Corporation (MSFT, +2.03%).

All S&P index sectors in positive area. Top gainer - Utilities (+1,5%).

At the moment:

Dow 18176.00 +161.00 +0.89%

S&P 500 2110.75 +16.25 +0.78%

Nasdaq 100 4474.75 +51.00 +1.15%

10-year yield 2.25% -0.04

Oil 59.68 -0.82 -1.36%

Gold 1222.60 +4.40 +0.36%

U.S. index futures advanced, signaling the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will rise for the first time this week, as the dollar fell to a four-month low.

Global markets:

Nikkei 19,570.24 -194.48 -0.98%

Hang Seng 27,286.55 +37.27 +0.14%

Shanghai Composite 4,378.93 +3.17 +0.07%

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Crude oil $60.18 (-0.53%)

Gold $1216.30 (-0.17%)

(company / ticker / price / change, % / volume)

Upgrades:

DuPont (DD) upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at BofA/Merrill

Downgrades:

Other:

Company reported Q3 profit of $0.54 per share versus $0.53 consensus. Revenues rose 5.1% year/year to $12.14 bln versus $12.07 bln consensus.

CSCO fell to $29.10 (-0.85%) on the premarket.

S&P/ASX 200 5,696.6 -18.50 -0.32%

TOPIX 1,591.49 -12.72 -0.79%

SHANGHAI COMP 4,378.93 +3.17 +0.07%

HANG SENG 27,232.52 -16.76 -0.06%

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Hang Seng 27,249.28 -157.90 -0.58 %

Shanghai Composite 4,376.71 -24.51 -0.56 %

FTSE 100 6,949.63 +15.83 +0.23 %

CAC 40 4,961.86 -12.79 -0.26 %

Xetra DAX 11,351.46 -120.95 -1.05 %

S&P 500 2,098.48 -0.64 -0.03 %

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Dow Jones 18,060.49 -7.74 -0.04 %