Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Food Producers & Processors and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were CTM (CS:CTM), which rose 9.38% or 76.00 points to trade at 886.00 at the close. Hps (CS:HPS) added 8.47% or 160.00 points to end at 2050.00 and S2M (CS:S2M) was up 5.52% or 15.70 points to 299.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Auto Nejma (CS:NEJ1), which lost 5.99% or 126 points to trade at 1979 in late trade. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 3.87% or 1.98 points to end at 49.22 and Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) shed 3.71% or 6.90 points to 179.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 22 to 22 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 1.37% or 0.87 to $64.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 1.20% or 0.83 to hit $69.86 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.36% or 4.80 to trade at $1336.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.08% to 11.3160, while USD/MAD fell 0.17% to 9.2070.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 90.04.