Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 lost 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG), which rose 1.58% or 240 points to trade at 15450 at the close. Bezeq (TA:BEZQ) added 1.50% or 11.7 points to end at 790.0 and OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) was up 1.15% or 43 points to 3783 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Discount (TA:DSCT), which lost 2.44% or 17.6 points to trade at 703.5 in late trade. Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) declined 2.27% or 2040 points to end at 87960 and Leumi (TA:LUMI) shed 1.88% or 28 points to 1460.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 161 to 146 and 136 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.33% or 1.11 to $46.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 3.10% or 1.56 to hit $48.90 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.04% or 12.30 to trade at $1170.80 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.55% to 3.8561, while EUR/ILS rose 0.18% to 4.3601.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.27% at 95.02.