Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Utilities, Construction & Building Materials and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Sonasid (CS:SOND), which rose 9.98% or 32 points to trade at 357 at the close. M2M Group (CS:M2M) added 9.90% or 31.00 points to end at 344.00 and Risma (CS:RIS) was up 9.09% or 10.00 points to 120.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Taslif (CS:TSF1), which lost 5.97% or 1.97 points to trade at 31.03 in late trade. Centrale Danone (CS:CDA) declined 5.85% or 31 points to end at 499 and Colorado (CS:COL) shed 3.88% or 1.98 points to 49.02.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 16 and 11 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 4.59% or 2.27 to $51.71 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 4.92% or 2.55 to hit $54.39 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.36% or 4.25 to trade at $1169.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.38% to 10.7060, while USD/MAD fell 0.03% to 10.0665.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.42% at 101.20.