Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Distributors, Mining and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA), which rose 6.00% or 1.56 points to trade at 27.56 at the close. Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) added 5.12% or 5.85 points to end at 119.95 and Med Paper (CS:PAP) was up 5.06% or 0.77 points to 15.98 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Snep (CS:SNP), which lost 4.87% or 6.20 points to trade at 121.00 in late trade. S2M (CS:S2M) declined 4.47% or 8.50 points to end at 181.50 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) shed 3.32% or 25 points to 725.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 22 to 14 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.70% or 0.42 to $60.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.30% or 0.20 to hit $65.08 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.82% or 9.70 to trade at $1187.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.40% to 10.9410, while USD/MAD rose 0.19% to 9.6770.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.48% at 94.71.