Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Utilities, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA), which rose 3.87% or 55.0 points to trade at 1475.0 at the close. Lydec (CS:LYD) added 3.45% or 20.00 points to end at 600.00 and Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) was up 3.10% or 0.72 points to 23.92 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA), which lost 1.98% or 0.44 points to trade at 21.79 in late trade. Sonasid (CS:SOND) declined 1.48% or 6 points to end at 395 and Alliances (CS:ADI) shed 1.47% or 2 points to 167.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 16 to 15 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.61% or 1.25 to $49.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 2.44% or 1.24 to hit $52.08 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.34% or 4.20 to trade at $1231.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.16% to 10.8440, while USD/MAD fell 0.22% to 9.8815.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 98.79.