Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Forestry&Paper, Invest Companies&Other Finance and Chemicals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares added 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Salafin (CS:SLF), which rose 4.55% or 47 points to trade at 1080 at the close. Meanwhile, Taslif (CS:TSF1) added 3.66% or 0.94 points to end at 26.60 and CIH (CS:CIH) was up 3.61% or 10.45 points to 299.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Delattre Levivier Maroc (CS:DLM), which fell 4.91% or 8.00 points to trade at 155.00 at the close. Sonasid (CS:SOND) declined 4.66% or 26 points to end at 530 and Jet Contractors (CS:JET) was down 2.99% or 11.00 points to 357.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 16 to 9 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.04% or 0.03 to $73.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.83% or 0.65 to hit $78.72 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.37% or 4.70 to trade at $1254.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.05% to 11.0800, while USD/MAD rose 0.09% to 9.4428.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.94.
