Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.59%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were CTM (CS:CTM), which rose 4.95% or 21.00 points to trade at 445.00 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) added 4.14% or 3.40 points to end at 85.40 and Colorado (CS:COL) was up 2.75% or 2.00 points to 74.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CGI (CS:CGI), which lost 9.93% or 64 points to trade at 580 in late trade. Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) declined 5.71% or 8.00 points to end at 140.00 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) shed 5.65% or 46 points to 768.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 20 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.65% or 0.84 to $50.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.90% or 0.52 to hit $56.52 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.06% or 11.70 to trade at $1091.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.14% to 10.7610, while USD/MAD rose 0.38% to 9.8845.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.51% at 97.91.