Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Construction & Building Materials, Insurance and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which rose 8.73% or 2.14 points to trade at 26.65 at the close. Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) added 8.37% or 77.0 points to end at 997.0 and Managem (CS:MNG) was up 7.86% or 71 points to 973 in late trade.
Biggest losers included LafargeHolcim Maroc (CS:LHM), which lost 6.09% or 109 points to trade at 1680 in late trade. Saham Assurance (CS:SAH) declined 3.14% or 45 points to end at 1390 and Taqa Morocco SA (CS:TQM) shed 1.79% or 15.90 points to 874.10.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 11 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 3.94% or 1.79 to $47.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 3.75% or 2.02 to hit $55.82 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.51% or 6.50 to trade at $1287.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.39% to 10.9083, while USD/MAD rose 0.53% to 9.6050.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.64% at 96.352.