Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Food Producers & Processors and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Hps (CS:HPS), which rose 4.53% or 65.00 points to trade at 1500.00 at the close. Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS) added 4.46% or 209 points to end at 4890 and Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) was up 4.00% or 1.00 points to 26.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which lost 7.13% or 16.50 points to trade at 215.00 in late trade. Taslif (CS:TSF1) declined 5.93% or 1.48 points to end at 23.47 and Risma (CS:RIS) shed 3.85% or 4.80 points to 120.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 27 to 16 and 10 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.39% or 0.18 to $46.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.48% or 0.23 to hit $48.65 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.67% or 8.24 to trade at $1241.94 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.23% to 11.0620, while USD/MAD fell 0.48% to 9.5686.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 94.42.