Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Oil & Gas and Food Producers & Processors sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Oulmes (CS:OULM), which rose 5.94% or 104 points to trade at 1854 at the close. CTM (CS:CTM) added 2.20% or 19.90 points to end at 925.00 and Jet Contractors (CS:JET) was up 1.57% or 5.95 points to 384.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Maghrebail (CS:MAB), which lost 5.99% or 59 points to trade at 925 in late trade. SMI (CS:SMI) declined 5.97% or 209 points to end at 3290 and Alliances (CS:ADI) shed 3.32% or 5 points to 144.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 27 to 11 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 2.88% or 2.04 to $68.69 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 2.40% or 1.83 to hit $74.34 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.14% or 1.90 to trade at $1312.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.14% to 11.1580, while USD/MAD rose 0.25% to 9.3942.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 92.89.