Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Alliances (CS:ADI), which rose 6.00% or 3 points to trade at 50 at the close. Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) added 6.00% or 60 points to end at 1060 and Salafin (CS:SLF) was up 5.98% or 40 points to 710 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CDM (CS:CDM), which lost 5.98% or 29 points to trade at 460 in late trade. Disway (CS:DWAY) declined 5.35% or 11.65 points to end at 206.00 and Residences Dar Saada SA (CS:RDS) shed 5.15% or 7.70 points to 141.75.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 17 to 15 and 2 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 3.24% or 1.52 to $45.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.91% or 0.94 to hit $47.98 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.74% or 8.40 to trade at $1124.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.33% to 10.8500, while USD/MAD rose 0.53% to 9.7748.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.48% at 96.50.