Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate, Pharmaceutical Industry and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Afriquia Gaz (CS:AGAZ1), which rose 7.95% or 210 points to trade at 2850 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) added 6.43% or 1.72 points to end at 28.46 and Involys (CS:INV) was up 4.32% or 5.30 points to 127.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Colorado (CS:COL), which lost 5.48% or 4.00 points to trade at 69.00 in late trade. Taqa Morocco SA (CS:TQM) declined 2.75% or 23.40 points to end at 826.60 and Bmce Bank (CS:BMCE) shed 2.44% or 5.00 points to 200.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 10 to 9 and 2 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 1.40% or 0.96 to $69.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.02% or 0.75 to hit $73.96 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.47% or 5.80 to trade at $1217.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.12% to 10.9440, while USD/MAD rose 0.02% to 9.4771.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 95.28.