Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Chemicals and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS), which rose 3.17% or 149 points to trade at 4850 at the close. Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) added 3.00% or 3.00 points to end at 103.00 and Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) was up 1.94% or 0.42 points to 22.07 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which lost 5.74% or 12.90 points to trade at 212.00 in late trade. Alliances (CS:ADI) declined 5.45% or 15 points to end at 260 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) shed 5.30% or 42 points to 748.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 24 to 11 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.19% or 1.11 to $51.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 2.69% or 1.52 to hit $57.94 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.17% or 15.13 to trade at $1312.63 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.23% to 11.1320, while USD/MAD rose 0.50% to 9.3897.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.58% at 92.48.