Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Forestry & Paper, Holding Companies and Food Producers & Processors sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.10%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Aluminum du Maroc SA (CS:ALU), which rose 3.27% or 48 points to trade at 1515 at the close. Meanwhile, Saham Assurance (CS:SAH) added 2.67% or 39 points to end at 1500 and Risma (CS:RIS) was up 2.55% or 4.00 points to 161.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which fell 9.98% or 3.25 points to trade at 29.31 at the close. Lesieur Cristal (CS:LESU) declined 4.82% or 8.50 points to end at 168.00 and Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) was down 4.17% or 0.81 points to 18.63.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 23 to 17 and 6 ended unchanged.
Shares in Aluminum du Maroc SA (CS:ALU) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 3.27% or 48 to 1515.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.12% or 1.32 to $63.45 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.86% or 1.23 to hit $67.28 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.55% or 7.20 to trade at $1310.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.24% to 11.2860, while USD/MAD rose 0.42% to 9.2063.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.53% at 89.94.