Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Utilities, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Maghreb Oxygene (CSE:MOX), which rose 6.66% or 36.40 points to trade at 582.90 at the close. Marocaine Ste de Therapeutique SA (CSE:SOT) added 3.18% or 31.00 points to end at 1,005.00 and S2M (CSE:S2M) was up 2.70% or 10.00 points to 380.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Realis. Mecaniques (CSE:SRM), which lost 3.74% or 17.00 points to trade at 437.00 in late trade. Ennakl Automobiles (CSE:NKL) declined 2.91% or 0.99 points to end at 33.00 and Cartier Saada (CSE:CRS) shed 2.21% or 0.77 points to 34.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 28 to 25 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.54% or 1.12 to $71.58 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 1.47% or 1.12 to hit $75.08 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.76% or 21.89 to trade at $2,897.69 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.20% to 10.42, while USD/MAD fell 0.64% to 10.01.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 107.28.