Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Construction & Building Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.05%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 7.38% or 10.30 points to trade at 149.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Afriquia Gaz (CS:AGAZ1) added 5.94% or 161 points to end at 2872 and Taslif (CS:TSF1) was up 5.90% or 1.44 points to 25.84 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wafa Assurance (CS:WASS), which fell 3.07% or 149 points to trade at 4701 at the close. Bmce Bank (CS:BMCE) declined 2.29% or 4.80 points to end at 205.10 and Snep (CS:SNP) was down 2.29% or 15.00 points to 640.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 10 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.28% or 0.14 to $50.55 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 0.14% or 0.08 to hit $56.37 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.43% or 18.81 to trade at $1297.59 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.14% to 11.1660, while USD/MAD fell 0.22% to 9.3515.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 91.99.