Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Distributors and Invest Companies & Other Finance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.19% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Dari Couspate SA (CS:DRI), which rose 5.99% or 202 points to trade at 3572 at the close. Sothema (CS:SOT) added 5.93% or 84 points to end at 1500 and CDM (CS:CDM) was up 5.47% or 29 points to 559 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Auto Hall (CS:AUTO), which lost 8.70% or 8.00 points to trade at 84.00 in late trade. Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) declined 6.69% or 11.50 points to end at 160.35 and Salafin (CS:SLF) shed 5.06% or 45 points to 845.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 23 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.17% or 0.10 to $58.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.20% or 0.13 to hit $65.03 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.63% or 8.00 to trade at $1278.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.16% to 11.1640, while USD/MAD rose 0.07% to 9.4243.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 92.98.