The Casablanca Stock Exchange closed lower on Friday, weighed down by the downturn in the “Leisure and Hotels”, “Building and Construction Materials” and “Mines” sectors. At the end of a day of trading exclusively in the red, the main index of the Casablanca quotation, the Masi, fell by 0.28% to 11,465.21 points, and the MSI20 fell by 0.26% to 934.48 points. The Madex, a compact index made up of stocks quoted on a continuous basis, for its part fell 0.29% to 9,328.45 points.
Regarding international indices, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 dropped 0.44% to 10,503.24 points and the FTSE Morocco All-Liquid dropped 0.34% to 9,816.6 points.
The benchmark Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) “Casablanca ESG 10” fell 0.28% to 873.12 points.
On the downside, the “Leisure and Hotels” index fell 3.1%, under the weight of the sharp drop in RISMA. The “Building and Construction Materials” sector fell by 1.98%, weakened by the Sonasid groups (-3.99%), LafargeHolcim Maroc (-2.36%), Jet Contractors (-1.84 %) and Ciments du Maroc (-1.5%). Likewise, the “Mines” index fell by 1.71%, under the effect of the general drop in all of its stocks, namely Managem (-2.09%) and Miniere Touissit (-1, 84%).
As for the winners, the “Electronic and electrical equipment” index rose 1.96%, the biggest increase of the day, followed by that of “Nexans Morocco” (+ 1.96%). The global volume of securities exchanges amounted to nearly 394 million dirhams (MDH). Market capitalization stood at nearly 593.73 billion dirhams (MMDH).
The largest increases were made by Atlanta Sanad (+ 3.99% to 83.71 DH), Colorado (+ 3.98% to 50.92 DH), Auto Hall (+ 3.67% to 82.99 DH ), Involys (+ 3.22% at 109 DH) and Disway (+ 3.04% at 580 DH).
The largest decreases were recorded by Sonasid (-3.99% to 365.8 DH), CDM (-3.63% to 451 DH), Risma (-3.1% to 101.5 DH), LafargeHolcim Maroc (-2.36% at 1612 DH) and Alliances (-2.1% at 32.6 DH).
