Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Invest Companies & Other Finance and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.36% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which rose 9.76% or 2.04 points to trade at 22.95 at the close. Timar (CS:TIM) added 5.55% or 11.10 points to end at 211.00 and Atlanta (CS:ATL) was up 4.42% or 2.62 points to 61.89 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which lost 9.91% or 2.67 points to trade at 24.28 in late trade. Residences Dar Saada SA (CS:RDS) declined 5.67% or 5.50 points to end at 91.50 and BMCI (CS:BMCI) shed 5.33% or 40 points to 710.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 18 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.69% or 0.46 to $67.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.62% or 0.47 to hit $76.64 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.37% or 4.60 to trade at $1232.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.06% to 10.8480, while USD/MAD rose 0.19% to 9.5475.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 96.42.