Investing.com – Morocco equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Insurance, Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure and Invest Companies & Other Finance sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.47%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were IB Maroc Com SA (CS:IBC), which rose 6.65% or 5.79 points to trade at 92.90 at the close. Eqdom (CS:EQDM) added 5.31% or 56 points to end at 1111 and Agma Lahlou-Tazi (CS:AGMA) was up 4.71% or 126 points to 2799 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Timar (CS:TIM), which lost 5.79% or 12.55 points to trade at 204.05 in late trade. Med Paper (CS:PAP) declined 4.12% or 1.29 points to end at 30.00 and Stroc Industrie (CS:STR) shed 1.74% or 0.73 points to 41.13.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 26 to 12 and 4 ended unchanged on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.12% or 0.54 to $47.82 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.99% or 0.50 to hit $50.13 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.74% or 9.37 to trade at $1276.37 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was up 0.21% to 10.9590, while USD/MAD fell 0.31% to 9.7221.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 96.69.