Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Transport and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 2.17% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Marocaine pour le Commerce et l’Industrie Banque SA (CSE:BCI), which rose 8.05% or 47.50 points to trade at 638.00 at the close. SMI (CSE:SMI) added 7.62% or 170.00 points to end at 2,400.00 and Itissalat Al-Maghrib (CSE:IAM) was up 6.52% or 5.69 points to 93.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Societe Equipement Domestique et Menager SA (CSE:EQD), which lost 7.26% or 90.00 points to trade at 1,150.00 in late trade. Miniere Touissit (CSE:CMT) declined 6.13% or 84.00 points to end at 1,286.00 and M2M Group (CSE:M2M) shed 5.99% or 29.35 points to 460.65.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 35 to 18 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.01% or 0.01 to $81.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.09% or 0.08 to hit $85.07 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.35% or 8.10 to trade at $2,336.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.07% to 10.66, while USD/MAD fell 0.35% to 9.93.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 105.34.