Investing.com – China equities were mixed at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Real Estate Investments & Services sectors propelled shares higher while losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Software & Computer Services and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite gained 0.33%, while the SZSE Component index fell 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Shanghai Composite were Shenzhen Geoway Co Ltd (SS:600462), which rose 10.16% or 0.250 points to trade at 2.710 at the close. Shanghai Greencourt Investment Group Co Ltd A (SS:600695) added 10.13% or 0.32 points to end at 3.48 and Pacific Securities Co Ltd (SS:601099) was up 10.13% or 0.230 points to 2.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Xilinmen Furniture Co Ltd (SS:603008), which lost 7.23% or 0.800 points to trade at 10.270 in late trade. Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd (SS:600887) declined 7.18% or 1.840 points to end at 23.800 and Ningbo Fubang (SS:600768) shed 6.73% or 0.640 points to 8.870.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Sealand Securities Co Ltd (SZ:000750) which rose 9.94% to 3.87, BGI Genomics Co Ltd (SZ:300676) which was up 8.49% to settle at 54.20 and Jiangsu Zhangjiagang Rural Commercial Bank Co Ltd (SZ:002839) which gained 8.46% to close at 5.64.
The worst performers were Changchun High & New Technology Industries Group Inc (SZ:000661) which was down 8.23% to 170.50 in late trade, Chongqing Zhifei Bio Products (SZ:300122) which lost 7.01% to settle at 36.24 and Wonders Information (SZ:300168) which was down 6.71% to 10.71 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 827 to 534 and 103 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 29.84.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.09% or 1.10 to $1234.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.14% or 0.09 to hit $66.34 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.21% or 0.16 to trade at $76.28 a barrel.
USD/CNY was up 0.01% to 6.9390, while EUR/CNY fell 0.23% to 7.9409.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 95.88.