Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Real Estate, Pharmaceutical Industry and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares declined 0.34%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX), which rose 9.44% or 13.90 points to trade at 161.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Jet Contractors (CS:JET) added 5.82% or 11.00 points to end at 200.00 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) was up 2.87% or 2.50 points to 89.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Realis. Mecaniques (CS:SRM), which fell 5.70% or 13.50 points to trade at 223.00 at the close. Timar (CS:TIM) declined 5.61% or 25.00 points to end at 420.00 and Snep (CS:SNP) was down 4.83% or 6.00 points to 118.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 19 to 13 and 3 ended unchanged.
Shares in Snep (CS:SNP) fell to all time lows; down 4.83% or 6.00 to 118.00.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.68% or 0.41 to $59.99 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.04% or 0.68 to hit $63.97 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.81% or 9.50 to trade at $1188.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.13% to 10.8760, while USD/MAD fell 0.06% to 9.6626.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 95.29.