Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Food Producers & Processors sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.54%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CSE:IBC), which rose 6.93% or 2.01 points to trade at 31.00 at the close. Meanwhile, S2M (CSE:S2M) added 5.36% or 9.00 points to end at 177.00 and Afriquia Gaz (CSE:GAZ) was up 5.13% or 200.00 points to 4,100.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Societe des Boissons du Maroc SA (CSE:SBM), which fell 7.43% or 193.00 points to trade at 2,405.00 at the close. Balima (CSE:BAL) declined 5.20% or 11.25 points to end at 205.00 and Label Vie (CSE:LBV) was down 3.96% or 178.00 points to 4,319.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 31 to 20 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.54% or 0.45 to $84.33 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.46% or 0.40 to hit $87.83 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.86% or 20.40 to trade at $2,389.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.17% to 10.68, while USD/MAD fell 0.40% to 9.87.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 104.69.