Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Insurance, Beverage and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS), which rose 4.85% or 198 points to trade at 4279 at the close. BMCI (CS:BMCI) added 3.88% or 25 points to end at 670 and CDM (CS:CDM) was up 3.64% or 20 points to 570 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Taslif (CS:TSF1), which lost 5.98% or 1.43 points to trade at 22.48 in late trade. Promopharm S.A. (CS:PRO) declined 5.94% or 62 points to end at 981 and Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) shed 5.90% or 8.90 points to 142.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 25 to 14 and 2 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 6.34% or 2.89 to $42.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 6.23% or 3.37 to hit $50.73 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 1.14% or 14.40 to trade at $1272.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.23% to 10.8830, while USD/MAD rose 0.09% to 9.5566.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 96.010.