Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemicals, Banking and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Ste de Travaux de Realisation d’Ouvrages et de Constuction Industielle SA (CSE:STR), which rose 5.64% or 2.48 points to trade at 46.47 at the close. Nationale d’Electrolyse et de Petrochimie Ste SA (CSE:SNP) added 4.28% or 23.00 points to end at 560.00 and Alliances (CSE:ADI) was up 4.04% or 17.10 points to 440.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Societe des Boissons du Maroc SA (CSE:SBM), which lost 6.13% or 147.00 points to trade at 2,250.00 in late trade. Wafa Assurance (CSE:WAA) declined 3.63% or 164.00 points to end at 4,351.00 and Label Vie (CSE:LBV) shed 3.15% or 135.00 points to 4,152.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 23 to 20 and 12 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.35% or 0.24 to $68.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.39% or 0.28 to hit $72.59 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.58% or 15.49 to trade at $2,660.71 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.13% to 10.47, while USD/MAD fell 0.08% to 9.94.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.44% at 105.82.