Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Maghrebail (CS:MAB), which rose 5.53% or 51 points to trade at 970 at the close. Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) added 3.42% or 46 points to end at 1390 and AFMA SA (CS:AFM) was up 3.20% or 31 points to 1000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Realis. Mecaniques (CS:SRM), which lost 5.15% or 16.40 points to trade at 302.00 in late trade. Colorado (CS:COL) declined 4.60% or 2.99 points to end at 62.00 and Atlanta (CS:ATL) shed 1.70% or 0.88 points to 51.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 25 to 16 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.59% or 1.15 to $43.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.28% or 1.07 to hit $45.84 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.12% or 1.51 to trade at $1245.19 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 10.9070, while USD/MAD rose 0.16% to 9.8035.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 97.46.