Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemicals, Transport and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Sonasid (CS:SOND), which rose 7.85% or 29 points to trade at 398 at the close. Snep (CS:SNP) added 7.13% or 23.50 points to end at 353.00 and Taslif (CS:TSF1) was up 5.82% or 1.63 points to 29.63 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Involys (CS:INV), which lost 9.96% or 13.05 points to trade at 117.95 in late trade. AFMA SA (CS:AFM) declined 7.98% or 78 points to end at 900 and S2M (CS:S2M) shed 4.09% or 9.60 points to 225.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 19 to 17 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.76 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.04% or 0.02 to hit $50.94 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.39% or 4.90 to trade at $1253.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.26% to 10.8040, while USD/MAD fell 0.35% to 9.9399.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.60% at 98.99.