Investing.com – China equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Life Insurance and Gas, Water & Multiutilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite declined 0.06%, while the SZSE Component index fell 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Ningbo Tuopu Group Co Ltd (SS:601689), which rose 10.03% or 1.530 points to trade at 16.790 at the close. Guizhou Changzheng Tiancheng Holding Co Ltd (SS:600112) added 10.03% or 0.330 points to end at 3.620 and DELIXI XINJIANG Transportation Co Ltd (SS:603032) was up 10.00% or 2.55 points to 28.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sichuan Golden Summit Group Joint Stock Co Ltd (SS:600678), which lost 10.00% or 0.830 points to trade at 7.470 in late trade. Pengxin International Mining Co Ltd (SS:600490) declined 10.00% or 0.78 points to end at 7.02 and Chongqing Zaisheng Technology Co Ltd (SS:603601) shed 7.08% or 0.53 points to 6.96.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Talkweb Information System Co Ltd (SZ:002261) which rose 10.12% to 4.680, Shenzhen Zhenye Group Co Ltd (SZ:000006) which was up 10.04% to settle at 6.14 and Anhui Shengyun Environment-Protection Group Co Ltd (SZ:300090) which gained 10.03% to close at 3.29.
The worst performers were Jiangsu Jiujiujiu Technology Co Ltd (SZ:002411) which was down 9.99% to 22.88 in late trade, Xinzhi Motor Co Ltd (SZ:002664) which lost 9.96% to settle at 12.38 and Taiji Computer Corp Ltd (SZ:002368) which was down 5.56% to 28.90 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 888 to 466 and 99 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was unchanged 0.00% to 22.04.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.09% or 1.10 to $1207.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.48% or 0.34 to hit $71.11 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.20% or 0.16 to trade at $79.56 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.00% to 6.8493, while EUR/CNY rose 0.23% to 8.0134.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 93.97.