Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Transport, Forestry & Paper and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which rose 5.80% or 6.80 points to trade at 124.00 at the close. Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) added 5.23% or 1.15 points to end at 23.15 and Colorado (CS:COL) was up 2.97% or 1.50 points to 52.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Timar (CS:TIM), which lost 5.99% or 19.90 points to trade at 312.10 in late trade. Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) declined 5.80% or 10.20 points to end at 165.80 and BMCI (CS:BMCI) shed 4.41% or 28 points to 607.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 19 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.65% or 0.78 to $48.19 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.83% or 0.90 to hit $50.06 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.12% or 1.55 to trade at $1344.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.21% to 10.9410, while USD/MAD fell 0.04% to 9.6712.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 94.42.