Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Beverage and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.64%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were SMI (CS:SMI), which rose 5.69% or 147 points to trade at 2729 at the close. Meanwhile, M2M Group (CS:M2M) added 5.36% or 14.00 points to end at 275.00 and CDM (CS:CDM) was up 4.55% or 20 points to 460 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Stokvis Nord Afrique (CS:SNA), which fell 5.27% or 1.36 points to trade at 24.42 at the close. Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) declined 4.55% or 2.34 points to end at 49.01 and Snep (CS:SNP) was down 2.39% or 2.00 points to 81.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 21 to 10 and 4 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.47% or 0.23 to $48.76 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.52% or 0.26 to hit $50.09 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.05% or 14.00 to trade at $1353.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.25% to 10.8970, while USD/MAD rose 0.06% to 9.7641.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 95.61.