Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Construction & Building Materials, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Holding Companies sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG), which rose 4.94% or 8.00 points to trade at 170.00 at the close. LafargeHolcim Maroc (CS:LHM) added 2.92% or 48 points to end at 1690 and Ciments Du Maroc (CS:SCM) was up 1.88% or 30 points to 1630 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lesieur Cristal (CS:LESU), which lost 8.77% or 12.80 points to trade at 133.20 in late trade. Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) declined 5.00% or 3.95 points to end at 75.00 and Med Paper (CS:PAP) shed 4.76% or 1.00 points to 20.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 15 to 10 and 8 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 4.19% or 2.02 to $46.15 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 3.77% or 2.16 to hit $55.08 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.54% or 6.75 to trade at $1263.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.09% to 10.8870, while USD/MAD fell 0.27% to 9.5302.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 96.050.