Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Invest Companies & Other Finance and Holding Companies sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were M2M Group (CS:M2M), which rose 6.67% or 25.00 points to trade at 400.00 at the close. Sothema (CS:SOT) added 5.97% or 80 points to end at 1420 and Eqdom (CS:EQDM) was up 5.83% or 67 points to 1217 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cartier Saada (CS:CRS), which lost 6.19% or 1.65 points to trade at 25.01 in late trade. Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) declined 5.10% or 7.30 points to end at 135.70 and Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) shed 4.87% or 9.25 points to 180.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 19 and 11 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.52% or 0.30 to $57.81 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.60% or 0.38 to hit $63.00 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.00 to trade at $1295.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 11.1830, while USD/MAD rose 0.18% to 9.4181.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.10.