Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Chemicals and Construction & Building Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS), which rose 3.17% or 149 points to trade at 4850 at the close. Meanwhile, Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) added 3.00% or 3.00 points to end at 103.00 and Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) was up 1.94% or 0.42 points to 22.07 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which fell 5.74% or 12.90 points to trade at 212.00 at the close. Alliances (CS:ADI) declined 5.45% or 15 points to end at 260 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) was down 5.30% or 42 points to 748.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 24 to 11 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.19% or 1.11 to $51.77 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 2.66% or 1.50 to hit $57.92 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.15% or 14.94 to trade at $1312.44 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.23% to 11.1320, while USD/MAD rose 0.50% to 9.3897.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.57% at 92.47.