Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Forestry & Paper, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which rose 8.64% or 2.50 points to trade at 31.44 at the close. SMI (CS:SMI) added 5.50% or 198 points to end at 3798 and Total Maroc SA (CS:TMA) was up 2.88% or 54.0 points to 1930.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sonasid (CS:SOND), which lost 9.99% or 78 points to trade at 707 in late trade. Taslif (CS:TSF1) declined 3.77% or 1.00 points to end at 25.50 and CTM (CS:CTM) shed 2.33% or 20.30 points to 851.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 26 to 14 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.72% or 1.05 to $62.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.40% or 0.91 to hit $66.03 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.38% or 5.00 to trade at $1312.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 11.2960, while USD/MAD rose 0.10% to 9.1916.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 90.23.