Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Invest Companies & Other Finance, Real Estate and Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.48% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA), which rose 7.99% or 136.0 points to trade at 1838.0 at the close. Med Paper (CS:PAP) added 4.04% or 0.99 points to end at 25.50 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was up 3.53% or 1.50 points to 44.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Promopharm S.A. (CS:PRO), which lost 5.99% or 94 points to trade at 1476 in late trade. Salafin (CS:SLF) declined 5.15% or 55 points to end at 1013 and Colorado (CS:COL) shed 4.01% or 3.49 points to 83.51.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 8 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.34% or 0.24 to $70.94 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.18% or 0.91 to hit $78.03 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.11% or 1.50 to trade at $1319.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.08% to 11.1900, while USD/MAD fell 0.19% to 9.3439.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 92.25.