Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Distributors, Telecoms and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.88%.
The best performers 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. Meanwhile, 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.
The worst performers of the session were AFMA SA (CS:AFM), which fell 6.55% or 59 points to trade at 841 at the close. Taslif (CS:TSF1) declined 5.96% or 1.61 points to end at 25.39 and Cartier Saada (CS:CRS) was down 5.41% or 1.27 points to 22.21.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 22 to 11 and 9 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.39% or 0.75 to $53.30 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, 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 2.40 to trade at $1256.40 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.