Investing.com – China equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Life Insurance, Financials and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite declined 0.32%, while the SZSE Component index lost 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Wintime Energy Co Ltd (SS:600157), which rose 10.23% or 0.220 points to trade at 2.370 at the close. Shanghai Laimu Electronics Co Ltd (SS:603633) added 10.02% or 1.850 points to end at 20.310 and GuangDong Super Telecom Co Ltd (SS:603322) was up 9.99% or 2.900 points to 31.940 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aurora Optoelectronics Co Ltd (SS:600666), which lost 10.00% or 1.740 points to trade at 15.660 in late trade. China National Software & Service Co Ltd (SS:600536) declined 9.90% or 2.590 points to end at 23.570 and Whirlpool China Co Ltd (SS:600983) shed 7.97% or 0.510 points to 5.890.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Glodon Software Co Ltd (SZ:002410) which rose 9.98% to 26.55, Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (SZ:002399) which was up 8.80% to settle at 19.53 and Happigo Home Shopping Co Ltd (SZ:300413) which gained 8.62% to close at 38.05.
The worst performers were Shanghai 2345 Network Holding Group (SZ:002195) which was down 5.17% to 6.78 in late trade, Cefc Anhui International Holding Co Ltd (SZ:002018) which lost 5.08% to settle at 3.74 and Csg Smart Science&Technology Co Ltd (SZ:300222) which was down 4.63% to 21.22 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 744 to 560 and 62 ended unchanged on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The CBOE China Etf Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was up 2.48% to 22.69.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.17% or 2.20 to $1310.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.18% or 0.12 to hit $68.31 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.18 to trade at $73.44 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.03% to 6.3518, while EUR/CNY fell 0.21% to 7.6027.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 92.38.