Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Holding Companies and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were S2M (CS:S2M), which rose 9.39% or 23.95 points to trade at 279.00 at the close. AFMA SA (CS:AFM) added 8.72% or 77 points to end at 960 and Med Paper (CS:PAP) was up 6.39% or 1.35 points to 22.49 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which lost 6.88% or 1.79 points to trade at 24.21 in late trade. Realis. Mecaniques (CS:SRM) declined 5.29% or 12.00 points to end at 215.00 and SMI (CS:SMI) shed 5.00% or 80 points to 1520.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 22 to 15 and 1 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.13% or 0.07 to $54.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.05% or 0.03 to hit $62.73 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.85 to trade at $1279.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.02% to 10.8714, while USD/MAD fell 0.01% to 9.5624.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 95.975.