Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Insurance, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Invest Companies & Other Finance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Lydec (CS:LYD), which rose 3.08% or 18.50 points to trade at 619.90 at the close. Med Paper (CS:PAP) added 2.30% or 0.63 points to end at 27.98 and CIH (CS:CIH) was up 2.26% or 6.90 points to 311.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saham Assurance (CS:SAH), which lost 7.17% or 114 points to trade at 1475 in late trade. Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) declined 6.47% or 1.28 points to end at 18.51 and Eqdom (CS:EQDM) shed 5.92% or 77 points to 1223.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 28 to 12 and 3 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.42% or 0.88 to $61.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.13% or 0.74 to hit $64.75 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.41% or 5.40 to trade at $1318.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.02% to 11.3230, while USD/MAD fell 0.08% to 9.1923.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 90.01.