Investing.com – Morocco stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Holding Companies and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares fell 0.35%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Afric Industries Sa (CS:AFIND), which rose 5.70% or 16.90 points to trade at 313.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Snep (CS:SNP) added 3.58% or 4.85 points to end at 140.00 and Colorado (CS:COL) was up 3.57% or 3.00 points to 87.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alliances (CS:ADI), which fell 10.00% or 14 points to trade at 124 at the close. Managem (CS:MNG) declined 3.19% or 30 points to end at 910 and Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) was down 2.77% or 4.00 points to 140.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 24 to 11 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.90% or 0.53 to $59.11 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.80% or 0.53 to hit $66.36 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 2.50% or 30.30 to trade at $1179.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.19% to 10.8580, while USD/MAD fell 0.16% to 9.7287.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 95.28.