Morocco shares higher at close of trade; Moroccan All Shares up 0.16%

Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Forestry & Paper , Invest Companies & Other Finance and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.16%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Salafin (CS: SLF ), which rose 4.55% or 47 points to trade at 1080 at the close. Taslif (CS: TSF1 ) added 3.66% or 0.94 points to end at 26.60 and CIH (CS: CIH ) was up 3.61% or 10.45 points to 299.95 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS: DLM ), which lost 4.91% or 8.00 points to trade at 155.00 in late trade. Sonasid (CS: SOND ) declined 4.66% or 26 points to end at 530 and Jet Contractors (CS: JET ) shed 2.99% or 11.00 points to 357.00.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.01% or 0.01 to $73.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.81% or 0.63 to hit $78.70 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.37% or 4.70 to trade at $1254.90 a troy ounce.

EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 11.0800, while USD/MAD rose 0.09% to 9.4428.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.94.