Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Forestry & Paper sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.05%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR), which rose 6.00% or 6.00 points to trade at 106.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) added 5.99% or 5.02 points to end at 88.72 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was up 5.99% or 2.23 points to 39.43 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were CDM (CS:CDM), which fell 5.99% or 27 points to trade at 428 at the close. Salafin (CS:SLF) declined 5.57% or 39 points to end at 699 and Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) was down 2.10% or 12.3 points to 572.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 21 to 13 and 6 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 4.53% or 1.63 to $34.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 4.98% or 1.81 to hit $34.60 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 1.08% or 11.60 to trade at $1090.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.02% to 10.7370, while USD/MAD fell 0.26% to 9.9736.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.01% at 99.47.