Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Electrical & Electronic equipment and Distributors sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Salafin (CS:SLF), which rose 3.92% or 40 points to trade at 1060 at the close. Meanwhile, Med Paper (CS:PAP) added 3.56% or 1.12 points to end at 32.56 and Lydec (CS:LYD) was up 2.48% or 14.90 points to 615.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SMI (CS:SMI), which fell 5.21% or 198 points to trade at 3600 at the close. Sonasid (CS:SOND) declined 5.09% or 36 points to end at 671 and Label Vie (CS:LBV) was down 4.38% or 84 points to 1835.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 24 to 14 and 9 ended unchanged.
Shares in Salafin (CS:SLF) rose to all time highs; up 3.92% or 40 to 1060.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.46% or 0.29 to $62.12 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.23% or 0.15 to hit $66.06 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 6.10 to trade at $1318.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.10% to 11.3050, while USD/MAD fell 0.22% to 9.1701.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 89.41.