Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Distributors sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.62%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Alliances (CS:ADI), which rose 9.99% or 22 points to trade at 244 at the close. Meanwhile, Jet Contractors (CS:JET) added 9.98% or 31.45 points to end at 346.45 and IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) was up 9.70% or 13.25 points to 149.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nexans Maroc (CS:NEX), which fell 5.98% or 10.70 points to trade at 168.30 at the close. Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) declined 5.60% or 89 points to end at 1500 and CIH (CS:CIH) was down 3.00% or 8.75 points to 283.20.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 25 to 11 and 8 ended unchanged.
Shares in Jet Contractors (CS:JET) rose to all time highs; up 9.98% or 31.45 to 346.45.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.14% or 0.07 to $50.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.43% or 0.24 to hit $55.88 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.33% or 4.14 to trade at $1275.94 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.07% to 11.1010, while USD/MAD fell 0.20% to 9.4362.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 93.37.