Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Chemicals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Afriquia Gaz (CS:AGAZ1), which rose 9.97% or 293 points to trade at 3233 at the close. Meanwhile, S2M (CS:S2M) added 9.16% or 25.00 points to end at 298.00 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) was up 4.00% or 3.00 points to 78.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SMI (CS:SMI), which fell 5.86% or 90 points to trade at 1445 at the close. Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) declined 5.30% or 1.68 points to end at 30.00 and Managem (CS:MNG) was down 4.76% or 50 points to 1000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 19 to 13 and 1 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was up 2.86% or 1.39 to $49.91 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.58% or 1.48 to hit $58.81 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.33% or 4.25 to trade at $1285.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.10% to 10.8663, while USD/MAD rose 0.19% to 9.4985.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 95.510.