Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Holding Companies and Invest Companies & Other Finance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.30%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Risma (CS:RIS), which rose 9.93% or 14.90 points to trade at 164.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Managem (CS:MNG) added 6.01% or 62 points to end at 1094 and Oulmes (CS:OULM) was up 5.99% or 87 points to 1540 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which fell 7.49% or 1.70 points to trade at 21.00 at the close. Taqa Morocco SA (CS:TQM) declined 2.69% or 25.00 points to end at 906.00 and Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) was down 2.08% or 1.50 points to 70.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 10 and 9 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was down 3.71% or 1.99 to $51.70 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 3.13% or 1.93 to hit $59.66 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.38% or 4.95 to trade at $1303.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.21% to 10.8978, while USD/MAD fell 0.16% to 9.5264.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 95.347.