Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Insurance, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Invest Companies & Other Finance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Lydec (CS:LYD), which rose 3.08% or 18.50 points to trade at 619.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Med Paper (CS:PAP) added 2.30% or 0.63 points to end at 27.98 and CIH (CS:CIH) was up 2.26% or 6.90 points to 311.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Saham Assurance (CS:SAH), which fell 7.17% or 114 points to trade at 1475 at the close. Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) declined 6.47% or 1.28 points to end at 18.51 and Eqdom (CS:EQDM) was down 5.92% or 77 points to 1223.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 28 to 12 and 3 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.47% or 0.91 to $61.13 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.15% or 0.75 to hit $64.74 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.41% or 5.40 to trade at $1318.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.02% to 11.3230, while USD/MAD fell 0.08% to 9.1923.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 90.01.