Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Utilities, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were M2M Group (CS:M2M), which rose 7.08% or 35.05 points to trade at 530.00 at the close. Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) added 5.44% or 9.80 points to end at 189.90 and Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) was up 5.05% or 86 points to 1790 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Saham Assurance (CS:SAH), which lost 6.82% or 109 points to trade at 1490 in late trade. Lydec (CS:LYD) declined 5.98% or 37.10 points to end at 582.90 and Risma (CS:RIS) shed 4.76% or 7.50 points to 150.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 23 to 16 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.17% or 0.11 to $65.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $69.53 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.74% or 10.00 to trade at $1345.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 11.3600, while USD/MAD rose 0.25% to 9.1525.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 88.93.