Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Invest Companies & Other Finance and Holding Companies sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.18%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were M2M Group (CS:M2M), which rose 6.67% or 25.00 points to trade at 400.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sothema (CS:SOT) added 5.97% or 80 points to end at 1420 and Eqdom (CS:EQDM) was up 5.83% or 67 points to 1217 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cartier Saada (CS:CRS), which fell 6.19% or 1.65 points to trade at 25.01 at the close. Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) declined 5.10% or 7.30 points to end at 135.70 and Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM) was down 4.87% or 9.25 points to 180.65.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 19 to 19 and 11 ended unchanged.
Shares in Sothema (CS:SOT) rose to all time highs; up 5.97% or 80 to 1420. Shares in Eqdom (CS:EQDM) rose to 52-week highs; gaining 5.83% or 67 to 1217.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.52% or 0.30 to $57.81 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.60% or 0.38 to hit $63.00 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.00 to trade at $1295.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 11.1830, while USD/MAD rose 0.18% to 9.4181.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.10.