Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Transport and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.31% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were S2M (CS:S2M), which rose 8.94% or 22.80 points to trade at 277.80 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) added 7.00% or 2.80 points to end at 42.80 and Ciments Du Maroc (CS:SCM) was up 2.64% or 45 points to 1750 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Colorado (CS:COL), which lost 5.74% or 5.10 points to trade at 83.80 in late trade. Managem (CS:MNG) declined 3.03% or 50 points to end at 1600 and Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) shed 2.55% or 7.35 points to 280.60.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 17 to 11 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.06% or 0.04 to $72.31 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.54% or 0.43 to hit $79.65 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.30 to trade at $1293.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.04% to 11.1230, while USD/MAD rose 0.02% to 9.4396.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.49.