Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemicals, Distributors and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which rose 6.38% or 1.50 points to trade at 25.00 at the close. Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) added 5.71% or 4.48 points to end at 82.99 and Afric Industries Sa (CS:AFIND) was up 5.46% or 14.70 points to 284.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Risma (CS:RIS), which lost 2.29% or 4.00 points to trade at 171.00 in late trade. Alliances (CS:ADI) declined 1.98% or 2 points to end at 99 and BCP (CS:BCP) shed 1.90% or 5.25 points to 271.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 10 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.15% or 1.64 to $74.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.33% or 1.15 to hit $85.14 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.16% or 1.90 to trade at $1201.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.04% to 10.8990, while USD/MAD fell 0.11% to 9.4824.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 95.53.