Foreign exchange market: the dirham appreciates against the dollar

The dirham depreciated by 1.85% once morest the euro and appreciated by 1.90% once morest the US dollar, during the period from September 29 to October 5, 2022, according to Bank Al -Maghrib (BAM).

During this period, no auction operation was carried out on the foreign exchange market, indicates the Central Bank in its recent weekly bulletin.

As of September 30, 2022, official reserve assets stood at 340.7 billion dirhams (MMDH), up 1.1% week-on-week and 7.2% year-on-year, know BAM.

During the same period, the overall outstanding amount of BAM’s interventions amounted to 104.8 billion dirhams, including 50.8 billion dirhams in the form of 7-day advances on calls for tenders, 30.9 billion dirhams of outstanding pensions delivered over the long term and 23.2 billion dirhams of long-term guaranteed loans.

On the interbank market, the average daily volume of trade stood at 7 billion dirhams and the interbank rate stood at an average of 2% during this period, notes the same source, noting that when calling offers of October 5 (value date October 6), the Bank injected an amount of 48.6 billion dirhams in the form of 7-day advances.

On the stock market, the Masi depreciated by 1.2%, bringing its poor performance since the start of the year to 12.7%. This weekly evolution mainly reflects the declines in the indices of the building and construction materials sectors by 3%, the food industry by 2.8% and the banks by 1.1%.

On the other hand, the indexes of the real estate investment companies and “oil and gas” sectors rose by 1% and 0.5% respectively.

As for the overall volume of trade, it stood at 923.6 million dirhams (MDH), once morest 1.1 billion dirhams a week earlier. On the central equity market, the average daily volume amounted to 183.7 MDH following 219.3 MDH.

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