Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Invest Companies & Other Finance and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 1.20% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Involys (CS:INV), which rose 9.32% or 11.40 points to trade at 133.70 at the close. M2M Group (CS:M2M) added 3.00% or 13.80 points to end at 473.80 and BCP (CS:BCP) was up 1.10% or 3.00 points to 276.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Managem (CS:MNG), which lost 9.94% or 153 points to trade at 1387 in late trade. IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) declined 7.00% or 4.89 points to end at 65.01 and Salafin (CS:SLF) shed 5.83% or 63 points to 1017.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 29 to 5 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 3.08% or 2.28 to $71.83 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 4.11% or 3.24 to hit $75.62 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.84% or 10.50 to trade at $1244.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.15% to 11.0680, while USD/MAD rose 0.26% to 9.4601.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.52% at 94.34.