Investing.com – China equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Travel & Leisure, Oil Equipment Services & Distribution and Media sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite declined 0.02%, while the SZSE Component index fell 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Shanghai Kindly Enterprise Development Group Co Ltd (SS:603987), which rose 10.02% or 1.720 points to trade at 18.880 at the close. Avic Aviation High Technology Co Ltd (SS:600862) added 10.02% or 1.20 points to end at 13.18 and Xinhuanet Co Ltd (SS:603888) was up 10.01% or 2.920 points to 32.100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ShanXi Coking Co Ltd (SS:600740), which lost 7.56% or 0.770 points to trade at 9.410 in late trade. Jiangsu Pacific Quartz Co Ltd (SS:603688) declined 6.06% or 1.09 points to end at 16.90 and Tongwei Co Ltd (SS:600438) shed 4.89% or 0.500 points to 9.730.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Csg Smart Science&Technology Co Ltd (SZ:300222) which rose 10.00% to 28.27, Beijing New Building Materials Public Ltd Co (SZ:000786) which was up 6.51% to settle at 19.30 and Hengbao Co Ltd (SZ:002104) which gained 6.45% to close at 11.38.
The worst performers were Walvax BioTech (SZ:300142) which was down 6.32% to 16.60 in late trade, Westone Information Industry Inc (SZ:002268) which lost 6.20% to settle at 21.03 and Jiangsu Yunyi Electric (SZ:300304) which was down 4.59% to 9.78 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 833 to 442 and 45 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was down 2.48% to 17.70.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.77% or 9.88 to $1298.78 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.49% or 0.25 to hit $51.05 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.32% or 0.18 to trade at $56.76 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.18% to 6.5815, while EUR/CNY fell 0.15% to 7.8087.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 92.74.