Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Residences Dar Saada SA (CS:RDS), which rose 4.12% or 6.65 points to trade at 168.00 at the close. Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) added 2.98% or 7.15 points to end at 247.25 and Managem (CS:MNG) was up 2.85% or 47 points to 1697 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cartier Saada (CS:CRS), which lost 5.30% or 1.35 points to trade at 24.10 in late trade. CDM (CS:CDM) declined 4.26% or 25 points to end at 560 and Taslif (CS:TSF1) shed 4.17% or 1.00 points to 23.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 22 to 10 and 9 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.07% or 0.04 to $54.42 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.28% or 0.17 to hit $60.77 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.57% or 7.26 to trade at $1277.76 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.09% to 11.0550, while USD/MAD rose 0.10% to 9.5080.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 94.65.