Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Transport, Distributors and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which rose 6.00% or 1.62 points to trade at 28.63 at the close. Maroc Leasing (CS:MLE) added 5.99% or 24.55 points to end at 434.55 and CDM (CS:CDM) was up 5.78% or 32 points to 586 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Micro Data SA (CS:MIC), which lost 2.67% or 7.95 points to trade at 290.10 in late trade. Hps (CS:HPS) declined 2.10% or 43.00 points to end at 2000.00 and Alliances (CS:ADI) shed 1.76% or 4 points to 223.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 26 to 16 and 10 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.85% or 0.52 to $61.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.26% or 0.81 to hit $65.14 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1355.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.17% to 11.3820, while USD/MAD rose 0.33% to 9.1448.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 88.88.