Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Distributors sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 1.36% to hit a new 52-week high.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Aluminum du Maroc SA (CS:ALU), which rose 6.00% or 66 points to trade at 1166 at the close. Meanwhile, CDM (CS:CDM) added 5.97% or 24 points to end at 424 and Unimer (CS:UMR) was up 5.97% or 9.85 points to 174.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hps (CS:HPS), which fell 1.66% or 9.00 points to trade at 530.00 at the close. Involys (CS:INV) declined 1.19% or 1.40 points to end at 115.60 and Alliances (CS:ADI) was 0.73% or 0 points to 67.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 39 to 6 and 7 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.08% or 0.91 to $44.69 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.52% or 0.68 to hit $45.30 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.24% or 3.05 to trade at $1277.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.59% to 10.9430, while USD/MAD rose 0.06% to 9.5895.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.48% at 93.72.