Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Construction & Building Materials, Oil & Gas and Food Producers & Processors sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Zellidja S.A (CS:ZELI), which rose 5.18% or 6.80 points to trade at 138.00 at the close. Unimer (CS:UMR) added 4.71% or 8.00 points to end at 178.00 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was up 4.64% or 2.24 points to 50.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Realis. Mecaniques (CS:SRM), which lost 2.49% or 9.00 points to trade at 352.00 in late trade. Saham Assurance (CS:SAH) declined 2.26% or 27 points to end at 1170 and Hps (CS:HPS) shed 2.20% or 18.00 points to 800.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 19 and 3 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.39% or 0.21 to $53.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.09% or 0.05 to hit $55.85 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.07% or 0.85 to trade at $1227.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.14% to 10.6890, while USD/MAD rose 0.19% to 10.0982.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 101.63.