Moroccan healthcare company Vicenne's IPO oversubscribed 64 times
The offering, the first IPO this year, attracted more than 32 billion dirhams ($3.5 bln) in demand for 500 million dirhams in shares.
The IPO drew 37,674 investors, including more than 36,000 individual investors from 49 different nationalities.
(Reporting by Ahmed Eljechtimi, Editing by Louise Heavens)
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