Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Mining and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which rose 9.98% or 18.10 points to trade at 199.55 at the close. SMI (CS:SMI) added 5.97% or 166 points to end at 2947 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) was up 5.26% or 16.95 points to 339.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sothema (CS:SOT), which lost 5.98% or 75 points to trade at 1180 in late trade. Eqdom (CS:EQDM) declined 4.13% or 45 points to end at 1045 and Salafin (CS:SLF) shed 3.30% or 29 points to 851.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 24 to 22 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.83% or 0.41 to $48.87 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.84% or 0.44 to hit $51.75 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.34% or 4.10 to trade at $1199.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.36% to 10.7250, while USD/MAD fell 0.49% to 10.0531.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 101.47.