Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Insurance, Food Producers & Processors and Forestry & Paper sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.23%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Saham Assurance (CS:SAH), which rose 9.86% or 134 points to trade at 1493 at the close. Meanwhile, Maroc Leasing (CS:MLE) added 5.95% or 26.00 points to end at 463.00 and Cosumar (CS:CSMR) was up 2.56% or 4 points to 178 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Snep (CS:SNP), which fell 5.32% or 33.70 points to trade at 600.00 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 4.70% or 1.34 points to end at 27.20 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) was down 4.11% or 3.77 points to 88.01.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 18 to 12 and 3 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.67% or 0.46 to $68.41 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.41% or 0.31 to hit $76.19 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.20 to trade at $1214.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 10.9910, while USD/MAD fell 0.25% to 9.3885.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 94.44.