Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Forestry & Paper, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 1.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Centrale Danone (CS:CDA), which rose 6.00% or 47 points to trade at 836 at the close. Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) added 5.31% or 5.55 points to end at 110.00 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was up 5.19% or 2.75 points to 55.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliances (CS:ADI), which lost 6.81% or 9 points to trade at 119 in late trade. Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) declined 6.49% or 100.0 points to end at 1440.0 and Med Paper (CS:PAP) shed 6.00% or 1.85 points to 29.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 33 to 21 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.72% or 0.38 to $52.63 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.50% or 0.28 to hit $55.73 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.46% or 5.55 to trade at $1194.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.10% to 10.6760, while USD/MAD fell 0.33% to 10.0507.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 101.38.