Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Software & Computer Services, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Zellidja S.A (CS:ZELI), which rose 5.96% or 8.95 points to trade at 159.00 at the close. Hps (CS:HPS) added 5.54% or 75.00 points to end at 1430.00 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) was up 4.11% or 12.00 points to 304.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX), which lost 3.26% or 4.85 points to trade at 144.05 in late trade. Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) declined 3.09% or 48 points to end at 1507 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) shed 2.22% or 2.20 points to 96.70.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 25 to 13 and 9 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.82% or 1.40 to $50.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.76% or 0.98 to hit $56.77 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.67% or 8.55 to trade at $1293.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.19% to 11.1180, while USD/MAD fell 0.37% to 9.4148.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.51% at 93.07.