Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Transport, Pharmaceutical Industry and Beverage sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.42%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which rose 5.96% or 1.49 points to trade at 26.49 at the close. CTM (CS:CTM) added 3.87% or 34.90 points to end at 937.00 and Sothema (CS:SOT) was up 3.34% or 50 points to 1549 in late trade.
Biggest losers included M2M Group (CS:M2M), which lost 7.59% or 33.00 points to trade at 402.00 in late trade. Aluminum mar 1l (CS:ALU) declined 3.50% or 46 points to end at 1270 and Marsa Maroc SA (CS:MSA) shed 3.00% or 5.10 points to 164.95.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 23 to 20 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.35% or 0.21 to $59.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.16% or 0.10 to hit $62.49 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.32% or 4.20 to trade at $1330.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.20% to 11.3540, while USD/MAD fell 0.38% to 9.1824.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.51% at 89.55.