Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Chemicals, Construction & Building Materials and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were SMI (CS:SMI), which rose 9.08% or 129 points to trade at 1549 at the close. BMCI (CS:BMCI) added 3.00% or 21 points to end at 712 and Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) was up 2.88% or 8.00 points to 286.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM), which lost 5.99% or 6.95 points to trade at 109.05 in late trade. Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) declined 4.84% or 2.09 points to end at 41.10 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) shed 4.83% or 20 points to 390.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 15 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 3.93% or 2.12 to $51.89 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 3.13% or 1.96 to hit $60.73 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.05% or 0.65 to trade at $1315.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.07% to 10.8373, while USD/MAD fell 0.04% to 9.5426.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 96.227.