Investing.com – China stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Shanghai, the rose 0.31%, while the index added 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the were Jiangsu Sunrain Solar Energy Co Ltd (SS:), which rose 10.09% or 0.440 points to trade at 4.800 at the close. Meanwhile, Aurora Optoelectronics Co Ltd (SS:) added 9.88% or 0.330 points to end at 3.670 and Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co Ltd (SS:) was up 7.32% or 0.57 points to 8.36 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Zhejiang Langdi Group Co Ltd (SS:), which fell 9.17% or 2.080 points to trade at 20.600 at the close. Eastern Communications Co Ltd A (SS:) declined 7.01% or 0.540 points to end at 7.160 and Nanjing Panda Electronics Co Ltd (SS:) was down 6.02% or 0.40 points to 6.24.
The top performers on the SZSE Component were Zhejiang Longsheng Auto Parts Co Ltd (SZ:) which rose 10.05% to 9.64, Jiangxi Special Electric Motor Co Ltd (SZ:) which was up 9.98% to settle at 6.83 and EVE Energy (SZ:) which gained 6.41% to close at 16.60.
The worst performers were Guangdong Eastone Century Technology Co Ltd (SZ:) which was down 4.85% to 5.10 in late trade, Fujian Guanfu Modern Household Wares Co Ltd (SZ:) which lost 4.55% to settle at 1.89 and Holitech Technology Co Ltd (SZ:) which was down 3.95% to 5.350 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Shanghai Stock Exchange by 715 to 618 and 144 ended unchanged.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Shanghai Composite options, was up 0.59% to 27.27.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.04% or 0.50 to $1247.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.52% or 0.27 to hit $52.22 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 1.05% or 0.63 to trade at $60.83 a barrel.
USD/CNY was down 0.18% to 6.8872, while EUR/CNY fell 0.14% to 7.7995.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 97.393.
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