Investing.com – Morocco stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Distributors , Beverage and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Casablanca, the Moroccan All Shares rose 0.30%.
The best performers of the session on the Moroccan All Shares were Nationale d’Electrolyse et de Petrochimie Ste SA (CSE: SNP ), which rose 5.19% or 34.00 points to trade at 689.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Taqa Morocco SA (CSE: TQM ) added 4.47% or 98.00 points to end at 2,288.00 and Disty Technologies SA (CSE: DYT ) was up 4.16% or 13.10 points to 328.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Salafin (CSE: SLF ), which fell 2.90% or 20.00 points to trade at 669.90 at the close. Cartier Saada (CSE: CRS ) declined 2.61% or 0.86 points to end at 32.12 and Wafa Assurance (CSE: WAA ) was down 2.02% or 99.00 points to 4,800.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Casablanca Stock Exchange by 34 to 20 and 7 ended unchanged.
Shares in Nationale d’Electrolyse et de Petrochimie Ste SA (CSE: SNP ) rose to 52-week highs; rising 5.19% or 34.00 to 689.00.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.40% or 1.50 to $63.97 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 2.11% or 1.39 to hit $67.24 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.85% or 28.59 to trade at $3,317.81 a troy ounce.
EUR/MAD was down 0.09% to 10.54, while USD/MAD fell 0.10% to 9.27.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 99.22.