Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Oil & Gas and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 9.13% or 5.85 points to trade at 69.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) added 8.00% or 1.00 points to end at 13.50 and Jet Contractors (CS:JET) was up 4.23% or 13.75 points to 338.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which fell 9.19% or 2.45 points to trade at 24.20 at the close. Auto Hall (CS:AUTO) declined 4.17% or 3.38 points to end at 77.62 and Saham Assurance (CS:SAH) was down 3.75% or 54 points to 1385.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 18 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.16% or 0.59 to $51.59 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.43% or 0.26 to hit $60.23 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 0.70 to trade at $1248.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.15% to 10.7760, while USD/MAD rose 0.23% to 9.5271.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 97.477.