Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 5.22% or 196 points to trade at 3953 at the close. Perrigo (TA:PRGO) added 0.73% or 360 points to end at 49690 and Poalim (TA:POLI) was up 0.42% or 8 points to 1924 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Avner L (TA:AVNRp), which lost 2.74% or 6.2 points to trade at 220.0 in late trade. Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) declined 2.46% or 28 points to end at 1108 and Gazit Globe (TA:GZT) shed 2.01% or 64 points to 3127.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 168 to 153 and 132 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 3.31% or 1.19 to $37.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 3.02% or 1.17 to hit $39.89 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.25% or 3.20 to trade at $1267.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.14% to 3.9150, while EUR/ILS fell 0.06% to 4.3009.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 97.36.