Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Software & Computer Services and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.20%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Jet Contractors (CS:JET), which rose 4.90% or 10.00 points to trade at 214.00 at the close. Hps (CS:HPS) added 3.26% or 15.00 points to end at 475.00 and Sonasid (CS:SOND) was up 3.15% or 22 points to 720 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which lost 5.52% or 6.90 points to trade at 118.10 in late trade. Managem (CS:MNG) declined 4.80% or 42 points to end at 832 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) shed 2.83% or 3.00 points to 103.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 22 to 15 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 4.01% or 1.73 to $41.39 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 3.37% or 1.65 to hit $47.16 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.99% or 11.10 to trade at $1128.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.21% to 10.8310, while USD/MAD fell 0.19% to 9.7922.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 96.89.