Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Distributors and Pharmaceutical Industry sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which rose 5.94% or 2.20 points to trade at 39.20 at the close. Snep (CS:SNP) added 5.88% or 6.65 points to end at 119.65 and Realis. Mecaniques (CS:SRM) was up 5.74% or 8.80 points to 161.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hps (CS:HPS), which lost 5.99% or 28.60 points to trade at 448.40 in late trade. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 5.83% or 5.54 points to end at 89.46 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) shed 5.61% or 11.95 points to 213.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 0 to 0 on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.53% or 0.26 to $49.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.65% or 0.34 to hit $53.73 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.33% or 3.60 to trade at $1089.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.26% to 10.7710, while USD/MAD rose 0.45% to 9.8685.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.54% at 97.74.