Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Electrical & Electronic equipment, Transport and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which rose 4.89% or 11.80 points to trade at 252.90 at the close. CDM (CS:CDM) added 4.45% or 25 points to end at 585 and Promopharm S.A. (CS:PRO) was up 3.40% or 51 points to 1551 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Afriquia Gaz (CS:AGAZ1), which lost 5.38% or 157 points to trade at 2762 in late trade. BMCI (CS:BMCI) declined 4.03% or 37 points to end at 880 and Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX) shed 4.00% or 6.00 points to 144.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 24 to 16 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.22% or 0.12 to $54.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.17% or 0.10 to hit $60.23 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 6.95 to trade at $1278.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.11% to 11.0600, while USD/MAD fell 0.22% to 9.4964.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 94.43.