Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Holding Companies and Construction & Building Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 5.99% or 5.54 points to trade at 97.94 at the close. Meanwhile, Aluminum du Maroc SA (CS:ALU) added 5.99% or 51 points to end at 905 and Ciments Du Maroc (CS:SCM) was up 5.58% or 62 points to 1172 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Promopharm S.A. (CS:PRO), which fell 9.71% or 133 points to trade at 1236 at the close. Timar (CS:TIM) declined 5.79% or 20.00 points to end at 325.00 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) was down 1.80% or 0.90 points to 49.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 18 to 12 and 8 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.35% or 1.09 to $47.42 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 2.28% or 1.09 to hit $48.86 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.53% or 7.05 to trade at $1317.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.34% to 10.8700, while USD/MAD fell 0.22% to 9.8092.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.26% at 96.30.