Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Insurance, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.34%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Alliances (CS:ADI), which rose 7.36% or 5 points to trade at 79 at the close. Meanwhile, Med Paper (CS:PAP) added 4.71% or 0.99 points to end at 21.99 and CIH (CS:CIH) was up 4.45% or 12.70 points to 298.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which fell 8.16% or 21.80 points to trade at 245.20 at the close. M2M Group (CS:M2M) declined 5.49% or 25.00 points to end at 430.10 and Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS) was down 5.18% or 224 points to 4101.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 16 to 14 and 3 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 3.33% or 1.76 to $51.13 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 3.38% or 2.08 to hit $59.48 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.23% or 2.85 to trade at $1245.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.11% to 10.7990, while USD/MAD fell 0.11% to 9.5003.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 96.745.