The Casablanca Stock Exchange closed lower on Wednesday, with its main index, the MASI, falling by 0.04% to 14,769.95 points (pts).
The MASI 20, an index comprising the 20 most liquid stocks, fell by 0.12% to 1,196.07 pts and the MASI ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG rating published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, decreased by 0.1% to 1,045.62 pts.
Bucking the trend, the MASI Mid and Small Cap, which measures the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, rose by 0.55% to 1,502.71 pts.
Internationally, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 and FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid indices ended with respective losses of 0.47% to 13,772 pts and 0.14% to 12,412.86 pts.
At the sectoral level, the “Distributors” (-1.48%), “Transport Services” (-1.31%) and “Electricity” (-0.79%) indices recorded the sharpest declines. Conversely, the “Agricultural Industry” sector (+9.98%) posted the strongest gain, ahead of “Beverages” (+2.23%) and “Engineering and Industrial Equipment Goods” (+2.49%).
Trading reached more than 174.46 million dirhams (MDH), carried out mainly on the central “Equities” market and dominated by transactions on CMGP Group (62.56 MDH), Taqa Morocco (8 MDH) and Attijariwafa Bank (7.7 MDH).
Market capitalisation exceeded 755.76 billion dirhams (MMDH).
Regarding individual stocks, the sharpest declines were recorded by Rebab Company (-2.35% to 102 DH), Disway (-2.27% to 641 DH), Salafin (-1.93% to 558 DH), Minière Touissit (-1.83% to 1,605 DH) and Crédit du Maroc (-1.81% to 962.2 DH). Conversely, CMGP Group posted, for another session, the best performance with a rise of 9.98% to 266.05 DH, ahead of Zellidja S.A (+6% to 91.17 DH), M2M Group (+5.54% to 548.90 DH), Stroc Industrie (+4.65% to 44.98 DH) and Involys (+3.09% to 98.97 DH).
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