Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Distributors, Telecoms and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.88%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Auto Hall (CS:AUTO), which rose 7.55% or 8.00 points to trade at 114.00 at the close. Alliances (CS:ADI) added 5.33% or 9 points to end at 175 and Fenie Brossette (CS:FBR) was up 4.98% or 7.45 points to 156.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AFMA SA (CS:AFM), which lost 6.55% or 59 points to trade at 841 in late trade. Taslif (CS:TSF1) declined 5.96% or 1.61 points to end at 25.39 and Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) shed 5.41% or 1.27 points to 22.21.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 22 to 11 and 9 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.39% or 0.75 to $53.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.21% or 0.68 to hit $55.74 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.19% or 2.35 to trade at $1256.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.08% to 10.6980, while USD/MAD fell 0.19% to 10.0771.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 100.93.