Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Distributors and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Label Vie (CS:LBV), which rose 6.00% or 60 points to trade at 1060 at the close. Colorado (CS:COL) added 5.00% or 4.00 points to end at 84.00 and Microdata (CS:MIC) was up 4.89% or 7.00 points to 150.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CIH (CS:CIH), which lost 4.09% or 13.50 points to trade at 329.50 in late trade. Ciments Du Maroc (CS:SCM) declined 3.04% or 35 points to end at 1115 and CTM (CS:CTM) shed 2.79% or 11.00 points to 383.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 29 to 12 and 2 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.87% or 0.52 to $59.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.34% or 0.23 to hit $66.47 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.18% or 2.20 to trade at $1223.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was unchanged 0.00% to 10.9510, while USD/MAD fell 0.15% to 9.5839.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.07% at 93.34.