Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Forestry & Paper and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.75%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were BMCI (CS:BMCI), which rose 6.00% or 35 points to trade at 615 at the close. IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) added 6.00% or 3.30 points to end at 58.30 and Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) was up 6.00% or 6.00 points to 106.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Snep (CS:SNP), which lost 5.30% or 4.03 points to trade at 72.00 in late trade. Med Paper (CS:PAP) declined 3.57% or 0.50 points to end at 13.50 and Bmce Bank (CS:BMCE) shed 2.83% or 6.00 points to 206.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 26 to 21 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 3.12% or 1.23 to $38.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 2.62% or 1.07 to hit $39.80 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 1.24% or 15.20 to trade at $1237.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.13% to 10.9080, while USD/MAD fell 0.34% to 9.6824.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.65% at 95.37.