Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Holding Companies, Forestry & Paper and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were M2M Group (CS:M2M), which rose 9.90% or 36.25 points to trade at 402.50 at the close. Sonasid (CS:SOND) added 3.69% or 26 points to end at 733 and Atlanta (CS:ATL) was up 3.26% or 2.05 points to 64.85 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliances (CS:ADI), which lost 4.06% or 9 points to trade at 220 in late trade. Eqdom (CS:EQDM) declined 3.39% or 37 points to end at 1053 and Saham Assurance (CS:SAH) shed 2.91% or 45 points to 1500.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 12 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.13% or 0.08 to $59.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.24% or 0.16 to hit $65.83 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.39% or 5.10 to trade at $1296.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.21% to 11.2100, while USD/MAD fell 0.34% to 9.3786.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 92.31.