Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Construction & Building Materials, Food Producers & Processors and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which rose 5.95% or 1.44 points to trade at 25.66 at the close. Sonasid (CS:SOND) added 4.89% or 26 points to end at 556 and Hps (CS:HPS) was up 3.72% or 70.00 points to 1950.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Salafin (CS:SLF), which lost 5.23% or 57 points to trade at 1033 in late trade. Involys (CS:INV) declined 4.38% or 5.60 points to end at 122.30 and Label Vie (CS:LBV) shed 4.11% or 90 points to 2100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 20 to 13 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.22% or 0.16 to $73.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.05% or 0.81 to hit $77.92 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.60 to trade at $1259.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was unchanged 0.00% to 11.0840, while USD/MAD rose 0.01% to 9.4373.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 93.91.