Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Mining and Pharmaceutical Industry sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 1.49%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were S2M (CSE:S2M), which rose 8.30% or 14.95 points to trade at 195.00 at the close. Meanwhile, SMI (CSE:SMI) added 6.63% or 142.00 points to end at 2,285.00 and Ciments Du Maroc (CSE:CMA) was up 4.17% or 74.00 points to 1,849.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Dari Couspate SA (CSE:DRI), which fell 5.91% or 218.00 points to trade at 3,470.00 at the close. AFMA SA (CSE:AFM) declined 1.88% or 24.00 points to end at 1,255.00 and Auto Hall (CSE:ATH) was down 1.86% or 1.30 points to 68.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 35 to 16 and 10 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.34% or 0.25 to $73.19 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.16% or 0.12 to hit $76.42 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.70% or 17.15 to trade at $2,427.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.21% to 10.73, while USD/MAD rose 0.09% to 9.84.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 102.74.