Morocco shares lower at close of trade; Moroccan All Shares down 0.33%

Investing.com – Morocco equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Real Estate , Pharmaceutical Industry and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares lost 0.33%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Afriquia Gaz (CS: AGAZ1 ), which rose 7.95% or 210 points to trade at 2850 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS: STR ) added 6.43% or 1.72 points to end at 28.46 and Involys (CS: INV ) was up 4.32% or 5.30 points to 127.90 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Colorado (CS: COL ), which lost 5.48% or 4.00 points to trade at 69.00 in late trade. Taqa Morocco SA (CS: TQM ) declined 2.75% or 23.40 points to end at 826.60 and Bmce Bank (CS: BMCE ) shed 2.44% or 5.00 points to 200.00.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 10 to 9 and 2 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 1.40% or 0.96 to $69.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.02% or 0.75 to hit $73.96 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.47% or 5.80 to trade at $1217.40 a troy ounce.

EUR/MAD was down 0.12% to 10.9440, while USD/MAD rose 0.02% to 9.4771.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 95.28.