Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Holding Companies and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which rose 5.93% or 8.25 points to trade at 147.30 at the close. Timar (CS:TIM) added 5.89% or 19.60 points to end at 352.00 and Salafin (CS:SLF) was up 5.27% or 36 points to 719 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which lost 6.00% or 3.30 points to trade at 51.70 in late trade. Jet Contractors (CS:JET) declined 5.55% or 10.00 points to end at 170.00 and Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) shed 3.82% or 1.05 points to 26.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 11 and 10 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 2.28% or 0.77 to $34.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.34% or 0.49 to hit $37.06 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.41% or 5.10 to trade at $1229.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.11% to 10.7640, while USD/MAD rose 0.17% to 9.9275.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 98.52.