Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Insurance and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Hps (CS:HPS), which rose 4.73% or 79.00 points to trade at 1750.00 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) added 1.94% or 0.95 points to end at 49.99 and Taqa Morocco SA (CS:TQM) was up 1.52% or 15.00 points to 1000.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Afriquia Gaz (CS:AGAZ1), which lost 5.44% or 173 points to trade at 3006 in late trade. S2M (CS:S2M) declined 4.74% or 13.95 points to end at 280.05 and Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS) shed 2.58% or 129 points to 4870.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 12 and 9 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.27% or 0.17 to $64.14 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $69.42 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.64% or 8.60 to trade at $1330.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.19% to 11.3010, while USD/MAD fell 0.30% to 9.2315.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.42% at 90.27.