Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Distributors and Construction & Building Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.15%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Snep (CS:SNP), which rose 6.59% or 38.00 points to trade at 615.00 at the close. Meanwhile, IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) added 4.73% or 6.05 points to end at 133.85 and SMI (CS:SMI) was up 3.49% or 108 points to 3200 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which fell 5.50% or 3.00 points to trade at 51.50 at the close. Colorado (CS:COL) declined 2.68% or 1.90 points to end at 69.10 and Label Vie (CS:LBV) was down 1.96% or 30 points to 1500.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 19 to 17 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.56% or 1.24 to $47.17 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.65% or 0.87 to hit $51.70 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.33 to trade at $1293.37 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.30% to 11.1200, while USD/MAD fell 0.31% to 9.4183.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 93.13.