Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemicals, Telecoms and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stroc Industrie (CS:STR), which rose 8.33% or 2.00 points to trade at 26.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA) added 8.32% or 1.06 points to end at 13.80 and Snep (CS:SNP) was up 7.12% or 29.90 points to 449.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Taslif (CS:TSF1), which fell 5.96% or 1.49 points to trade at 23.51 at the close. Micro Data SA (CS:MIC) declined 2.96% or 8.00 points to end at 262.00 and Miniere Touissit (CS:CMT) was down 2.40% or 33 points to 1343.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 17 to 11 and 6 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 1.17% or 0.61 to $51.70 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.67% or 0.41 to hit $60.91 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.19% or 2.45 to trade at $1291.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.01% to 10.8778, while USD/MAD rose 0.06% to 9.5516.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 95.757.