Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Forestry & Paper, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Holding Companies sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.43%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Timar (CS:TIM), which rose 7.05% or 14.80 points to trade at 224.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Taslif (CS:TSF1) added 5.70% or 1.51 points to end at 28.00 and Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX) was up 5.64% or 7.85 points to 146.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM), which fell 5.50% or 10.70 points to trade at 184.00 at the close. Alliances (CS:ADI) declined 2.77% or 6 points to end at 225 and Med Paper (CS:PAP) was down 2.33% or 0.74 points to 31.05.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 21 to 21 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.25% or 0.15 to $59.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.46% or 0.29 to hit $63.01 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.38% or 18.40 to trade at $1348.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.14% to 11.3660, while USD/MAD fell 0.30% to 9.1623.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 89.29.