Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Electrical & Electronic equipment, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Snep (CS:SNP), which rose 9.99% or 31.75 points to trade at 349.65 at the close. Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) added 9.97% or 14.45 points to end at 159.45 and Alliances (CS:ADI) was up 9.96% or 14 points to 154 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM), which lost 5.30% or 9.80 points to trade at 175.00 in late trade. Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX) declined 4.48% or 7.50 points to end at 160.00 and Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) shed 4.11% or 0.90 points to 21.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 27 to 20 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.06% or 1.09 to $54.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 2.18% or 1.21 to hit $56.84 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 1.05 to trade at $1235.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 10.7150, while USD/MAD rose 0.03% to 10.0625.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 100.62.