Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Construction & Building Materials, Food Producers & Processors and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which rose 5.95% or 1.44 points to trade at 25.66 at the close. Meanwhile, Sonasid (CS:SOND) added 4.89% or 26 points to end at 556 and Hps (CS:HPS) was up 3.72% or 70.00 points to 1950.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Salafin (CS:SLF), which fell 5.23% or 57 points to trade at 1033 at the close. Involys (CS:INV) declined 4.38% or 5.60 points to end at 122.30 and Label Vie (CS:LBV) was down 4.11% or 90 points to 2100.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 13 and 4 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.26% or 0.19 to $73.61 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.06% or 0.82 to hit $77.93 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.28% or 3.50 to trade at $1259.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was unchanged 0.00% to 11.0840, while USD/MAD rose 0.01% to 9.4373.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 93.92.