Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Forestry & Paper, Construction & Building Materials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Med Paper (CS:PAP), which rose 5.01% or 1.11 points to trade at 23.26 at the close. Meanwhile, IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) added 3.17% or 2.00 points to end at 65.00 and LafargeHolcim Maroc (CS:LHM) was up 3.13% or 50 points to 1650 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Lesieur Cristal (CS:LESU), which fell 2.68% or 4.00 points to trade at 145.00 at the close. Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) declined 2.54% or 0.30 points to end at 11.50 and CIH (CS:CIH) was down 2.07% or 6.00 points to 284.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 15 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 1.74% or 0.97 to $56.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.83% or 1.20 to hit $66.67 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.36% or 4.30 to trade at $1203.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.06% to 10.7920, while USD/MAD fell 0.10% to 9.5350.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 96.84.