Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Oil & Gas and Food Producers & Processors sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.60% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Dari Couspate SA (CS:DRI), which rose 5.99% or 214 points to trade at 3786 at the close. Lesieur Cristal (CS:LESU) added 3.64% or 6.15 points to end at 175.00 and Taqa Morocco SA (CS:TQM) was up 3.62% or 32.80 points to 939.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Taslif (CS:TSF1), which lost 5.17% or 1.32 points to trade at 24.21 in late trade. M2M Group (CS:M2M) declined 4.76% or 20.00 points to end at 400.00 and Involys (CS:INV) shed 3.39% or 4.40 points to 125.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 30 to 14 and 7 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.97% or 0.60 to $61.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.62% or 0.42 to hit $67.65 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1322.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.04% to 11.2400, while USD/MAD rose 0.21% to 9.3364.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 91.72.