Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Construction & Building Materials, Transport and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were CDM (CS:CDM), which rose 6.00% or 28 points to trade at 488 at the close. BMCI (CS:BMCI) added 6.00% or 33 points to end at 555 and Aluminum mar 1l (CS:ALU) was up 5.86% or 69 points to 1245 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliances (CS:ADI), which lost 10.00% or 4 points to trade at 39 in late trade. Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) declined 6.00% or 35.7 points to end at 559.3 and S2M (CS:S2M) shed 6.00% or 12.30 points to 192.70.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 16 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.30% or 0.58 to $44.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.31% or 0.62 to hit $47.06 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 2.25% or 25.10 to trade at $1138.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.44% to 10.9320, while USD/MAD fell 0.47% to 9.6780.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.79% at 95.58.