Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Forestry & Paper and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were AFMA SA (CS:AFM), which rose 9.44% or 85 points to trade at 985 at the close. Marsa Maroc SA (CS:MSA) added 7.20% or 9.20 points to end at 137.00 and Maroc Leasing (CS:MLE) was up 5.95% or 22.00 points to 392.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Timar (CS:TIM), which lost 4.55% or 10.00 points to trade at 209.95 in late trade. Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS) declined 4.19% or 197 points to end at 4500 and Oulmes (CS:OULM) shed 2.94% or 47 points to 1553.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 23 to 16 and 10 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.57% or 0.75 to $48.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.20% or 0.61 to hit $51.51 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.65 to trade at $1254.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.13% to 10.7890, while USD/MAD rose 0.16% to 9.9579.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 99.28.