Israel stocks higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 0.69%Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the rose 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the were Azrieli Group Ltd (TASE:), which rose 3.32% or 700 points to trade at 21800 at the close. Meanwhile, Delek Group (TASE:) added 3.26% or 2040 points to end at 64540 and OPKO Health Inc (TASE:) was up 3.11% or 23 points to 749 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:), which fell 1.88% or 110 points to trade at 5750 at the close. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TASE:) declined 1.71% or 73 points to end at 4204 and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:) was down 1.53% or 3.9 points to 250.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 268 to 126 and 26 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.99% or 1.89 to $61.24 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 2.24% or 1.62 to hit $70.56 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.11% or 1.45 to trade at $1274.65 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.12% to 3.6140, while EUR/ILS fell 0.14% to 4.0316.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 97.907.
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