Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Distributors, Oil & Gas and Food Producers & Processors sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.20%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Auto Hall (CS:AUTO), which rose 7.63% or 5.95 points to trade at 83.95 at the close. Meanwhile, Colorado (CS:COL) added 5.20% or 3.31 points to end at 66.91 and Maghreb Oxygene (CS:OXYG) was up 5.19% or 8.00 points to 162.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA), which fell 7.08% or 0.80 points to trade at 10.50 at the close. Snep (CS:SNP) declined 4.13% or 19.80 points to end at 460.20 and Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) was down 3.45% or 50 points to 1400.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 13 to 9 and 7 ended unchanged.
Shares in Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) fell to all time lows; down 7.08% or 0.80 to 10.50. Shares in Snep (CS:SNP) fell to 52-week lows; down 4.13% or 19.80 to 460.20.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.37% or 0.19 to $51.44 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.23% or 0.14 to hit $60.42 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.82% or 10.10 to trade at $1218.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.13% to 10.7690, while USD/MAD rose 0.24% to 9.5419.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 97.352.