Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Chemicals and Food Producers & Processors sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Risma (CS:RIS), which rose 9.96% or 11.35 points to trade at 125.30 at the close. Dari Couspate SA (CS:DRI) added 5.99% or 146 points to end at 2585 and Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) was up 5.56% or 6.00 points to 114.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which lost 5.50% or 6.00 points to trade at 103.00 in late trade. Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS) declined 4.54% or 219 points to end at 4600 and Hps (CS:HPS) shed 3.14% or 25.90 points to 800.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 26 to 19 and 6 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.88% or 1.01 to $54.79 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.58% or 0.89 to hit $57.07 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.25 to trade at $1237.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.37% to 10.6580, while USD/MAD rose 0.35% to 10.1160.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 101.36.