Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Holding Companies, Banking and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.44%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which rose 5.93% or 0.98 points to trade at 17.50 at the close. Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) added 4.83% or 5.90 points to end at 127.85 and Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) was up 4.00% or 4.00 points to 104.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Jet Contractors (CS:JET), which lost 4.86% or 10.40 points to trade at 203.50 in late trade. BCP (CS:BCP) declined 2.41% or 5.55 points to end at 223.85 and Delta Holding S.A (CS:DHO) shed 2.21% or 0.61 points to 26.99.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 19 to 15 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 2.42% or 1.05 to $42.25 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.45% or 0.73 to hit $49.45 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.73% or 8.20 to trade at $1115.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 10.8610, while USD/MAD rose 0.10% to 9.7465.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.20% at 96.48.