Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Utilities and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which rose 9.99% or 4.46 points to trade at 49.11 at the close. Disway SA (CS:DWY) added 9.99% or 33.45 points to end at 368.30 and Snep (CS:SNP) was up 9.98% or 12.10 points to 133.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AFMA SA (CS:AFM), which lost 7.09% or 58 points to trade at 760 in late trade. Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) declined 5.73% or 4.98 points to end at 82.00 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) shed 5.10% or 15.20 points to 283.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 29 to 19 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.78% or 0.86 to $47.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.08% or 0.53 to hit $48.37 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.10% or 1.15 to trade at $1210.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.22% to 10.6830, while USD/MAD fell 0.08% to 10.0524.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.16% at 101.10.