Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR), which rose 6.00% or 6.00 points to trade at 106.00 at the close. Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) added 5.99% or 5.02 points to end at 88.72 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was up 5.99% or 2.23 points to 39.43 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CDM (CS:CDM), which lost 5.99% or 27 points to trade at 428 in late trade. Salafin (CS:SLF) declined 5.57% or 39 points to end at 699 and Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) shed 2.10% or 12.3 points to 572.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 13 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 4.53% or 1.63 to $34.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 5.01% or 1.82 to hit $34.59 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 1.08% or 11.70 to trade at $1090.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.02% to 10.7370, while USD/MAD fell 0.26% to 9.9736.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.01% at 99.47.