Poland’s blue-chip WIG20 stock market index hit its highest ever level on Monday, surpassing a record that had stood for almost 19 years. The WIG20 has been Europe’s best-performing major blue-chip index so far this year. On Monday, the biggest boosts to the WIG20 index were provided by PGE, Poland’s biggest power producer, and KGHM, a Polish multinational mining company, with their shares rising 3.3% and 1.6%, respectively. Poland’s main stock index, the broader WIG, also closed on Monday at a record high of 148,428 points, having hit several records in recent months. Poland’s benchmark WIG stock index has passed the 100,000-point mark for the first time.