The Casablanca Stock Exchange ended in negative territory on Tuesday, its main index, the MASI, losing 0.12% to 11,532.99 points (pts).
The MASI.ESG, index of companies with the best ESG rating, as published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, lost 0.18% to 862.37 pts and the MASI Mid and Small Cap, thematic index which calculates price performance of small and medium-sized enterprises listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, fell by 0.31% to 923.21 pts.
Against the trend, the MASI.20, an index comprising the 20 most liquid stocks, gained 0.05% to 937.61 pts.
On the international side, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 and the FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid rose by 0.03% to 10,669.46 pts and 0.05% to 9,668.28 pts respectively.
At the sectoral level, the electricity index posted the largest drop (-4.12%), followed by those of portfolio-holding companies (-1.46%) and the pharmaceutical industry ( -1.41%).
Conversely, forestry and paper recorded the strongest increase (+5.96%), ahead of distributors (+1.57%) and health (+1.07%).
The overall volume of trade, carried out mainly on the Central Market (Shares), concerned 47.91 million dirhams (MDH) and was dominated by transactions on BCP with 8.37 MDH, Attijariwafa Bank (5.27 MDH ) and Bank of Africa (4.84 MDH).
Market capitalization amounted, for its part, to nearly 595.93 billion dirhams (MMDH).
In values, Taqa Morocco (-4.12% to 1,025 DH), Crédit du Maroc (-3.99% to 720.1 DH), Rebab Company (-2.07% to 90 DH), Aluminum du Maroc (- 1.79% to 1,375 DH) and Hps (-1.71% to 5,799 DH) made the biggest drops.
Conversely, the highest increases were recorded by Med Paper (+5.96% to 27.55 DH), Stokvis Nord Afrique (+3.93% to 11.64 DH), Agma (+3.32 % at 6,200 DH), Delta Holding (+2.76% at 33.5 DH) and Auto Hall (+2.49% at 77 DH).
The overall volume of trade at the close of the Casablanca Stock Exchange amounted to 47.91 million dirhams (MDH).
This volume was achieved mainly on the Central Market (Shares) and dominated by transactions on BCP which drained 8.37 MDH, Attijariwafa Bank (5.27 MDH) and Bank of Africa (4.84 MDH).
Market capitalization exceeded, for its part, 595.93 billion dirhams (MMDH).