Morocco shares higher at close of trade; Moroccan All Shares up 0.15%

Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemicals , Distributors and Construction & Building Materials sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.15%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Stroc Industrie (CS: STR ), which rose 6.38% or 1.50 points to trade at 25.00 at the close. Auto Hall (CS: AUTO ) added 5.71% or 4.48 points to end at 82.99 and Afric Industries Sa (CS: AFIND ) was up 5.46% or 14.70 points to 284.00 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Risma (CS: RIS ), which lost 2.29% or 4.00 points to trade at 171.00 in late trade. Alliances (CS: ADI ) declined 1.98% or 2 points to end at 99 and BCP (CS: BCP ) shed 1.90% or 5.25 points to 271.40.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 10 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.15% or 1.64 to $74.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.33% or 1.15 to hit $85.14 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.16% or 1.90 to trade at $1201.00 a troy ounce.

EUR/MAD was up 0.04% to 10.8990, while USD/MAD fell 0.11% to 9.4824.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 95.53.