Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Construction & Building Materials, Food Producers & Processors and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 7.73% or 8.25 points to trade at 114.95 at the close. Timar (CS:TIM) added 5.90% or 17.50 points to end at 314.00 and Alliances (CS:ADI) was up 3.86% or 2 points to 67 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sonasid (CS:SOND), which lost 4.16% or 15 points to trade at 343 in late trade. Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) declined 3.69% or 4.50 points to end at 117.50 and Cosumar (CS:CSMR) shed 3.32% or 6 points to 189.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 18 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 1.86% or 0.85 to $46.59 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.61% or 0.78 to hit $49.13 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.53% or 7.20 to trade at $1354.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.23% to 10.9430, while USD/MAD fell 0.65% to 9.6929.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.84% at 94.78.