Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Insurance, Food Producers & Processors and Forestry & Paper sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Saham Assurance (CS:SAH), which rose 9.86% or 134 points to trade at 1493 at the close. Maroc Leasing (CS:MLE) added 5.95% or 26.00 points to end at 463.00 and Cosumar (CS:CSMR) was up 2.56% or 4 points to 178 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Snep (CS:SNP), which lost 5.32% or 33.70 points to trade at 600.00 in late trade. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 4.70% or 1.34 points to end at 27.20 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) shed 4.11% or 3.77 points to 88.01.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 18 to 12 and 3 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.70% or 0.48 to $68.39 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.41% or 0.31 to hit $76.19 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.20 to trade at $1214.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 10.9910, while USD/MAD fell 0.36% to 9.3788.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 94.44.