Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Construction & Building Materials, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 6.72% or 4.40 points to trade at 69.90 at the close. Alliances (CS:ADI) added 4.50% or 5 points to end at 115 and Douja Prom Addoha (CS:ADH) was up 3.93% or 0.70 points to 18.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included M2M Group (CS:M2M), which lost 7.12% or 34.90 points to trade at 455.10 in late trade. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 5.14% or 1.49 points to end at 27.50 and BMCI (CS:BMCI) shed 4.56% or 41 points to 859.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 17 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.13% or 0.84 to $73.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.23% or 0.18 to hit $78.06 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.34% or 4.30 to trade at $1257.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.10% to 11.0640, while USD/MAD fell 0.21% to 9.4624.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 94.12.