Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Construction & Building Materials and Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Sothema (CS:SOT), which rose 4.00% or 50 points to trade at 1300 at the close. Meanwhile, Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) added 3.49% or 8.40 points to end at 248.90 and LafargeHolcim Maroc (CS:LHM) was up 3.19% or 60 points to 1940 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Zellidja S.A (CS:ZELI), which fell 5.98% or 11.25 points to trade at 176.75 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 4.96% or 2.70 points to end at 51.70 and Taslif (CS:TSF1) was down 3.96% or 0.99 points to 24.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 14 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.40% or 0.21 to $52.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.50% or 0.29 to hit $58.73 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.58% or 7.44 to trade at $1271.56 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.42% to 11.0750, while USD/MAD rose 0.05% to 9.4190.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.91% at 94.38.