Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, Forestry & Paper and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares gained 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Timar (CS:TIM), which rose 5.61% or 12.00 points to trade at 226.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Risma (CS:RIS) added 4.40% or 4.40 points to end at 104.40 and Zellidja S.A (CS:ZELI) was up 4.20% or 6.00 points to 149.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Snep (CS:SNP), which fell 9.98% or 11.25 points to trade at 101.45 at the close. IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC) declined 8.50% or 8.37 points to end at 90.12 and M2M Group (CS:M2M) was down 6.83% or 20.30 points to 277.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 20 to 19 and 9 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 3.52% or 1.69 to $46.27 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 3.39% or 1.66 to hit $47.34 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.79% or 9.45 to trade at $1179.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.15% to 10.6900, while USD/MAD fell 0.26% to 10.0865.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 101.56.