Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Real Estate, Construction & Building Materials and Chemicals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Agma Lahlou-Tazi (CS:AGMA), which rose 5.58% or 148 points to trade at 2800 at the close. Promopharm S.A. (CS:PRO) added 4.92% or 75 points to end at 1600 and Rebab Company (CS:REBA) was up 4.90% or 7.00 points to 150.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which lost 10.00% or 17.10 points to trade at 153.95 in late trade. Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) declined 4.86% or 6.95 points to end at 136.10 and Taslif (CS:TSF1) shed 4.62% or 1.20 points to 24.80.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 25 to 17 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.40% or 0.19 to $48.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.72% or 0.39 to hit $54.23 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.24% or 3.26 to trade at $1332.44 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.02% to 11.1680, while USD/MAD fell 0.07% to 9.3339.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 91.91.