Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Construction & Building Materials, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Agma Lahlou-Tazi (CS:AGMA), which rose 3.96% or 104 points to trade at 2729 at the close. Label Vie (CS:LBV) added 1.28% or 18 points to end at 1420 and BCP (CS:BCP) was up 1.20% or 3.25 points to 275.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM), which lost 6.66% or 12.85 points to trade at 180.15 in late trade. LafargeHolcim Maroc (CS:LHM) declined 5.62% or 123 points to end at 2065 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) shed 5.39% or 16.85 points to 295.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 30 to 9 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.29% or 0.14 to $48.71 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.17% or 0.09 to hit $51.73 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.52% or 6.41 to trade at $1236.41 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.36% to 10.8850, while USD/MAD fell 0.76% to 9.8050.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.70% at 98.12.