Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Beverage and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.64%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were SMI (CS:SMI), which rose 5.69% or 147 points to trade at 2729 at the close. M2M Group (CS:M2M) added 5.36% or 14.00 points to end at 275.00 and CDM (CS:CDM) was up 4.55% or 20 points to 460 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA), which lost 5.27% or 1.36 points to trade at 24.42 in late trade. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 4.55% or 2.34 points to end at 49.01 and Snep (CS:SNP) shed 2.39% or 2.00 points to 81.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 21 to 10 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.47% or 0.23 to $48.76 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.52% or 0.26 to hit $50.09 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.05% or 14.00 to trade at $1353.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.25% to 10.8970, while USD/MAD rose 0.06% to 9.7641.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 95.61.