Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Biomed sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 rose 1.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 7.15% or 393 points to trade at 5890 at the close. Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG) added 4.47% or 720 points to end at 16820 and Avner L (TA:AVNRp) was up 3.17% or 9.4 points to 305.9 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Migdal Insurance (TA:MGDL), which lost 2.16% or 10.2 points to trade at 461.5 in late trade. Teva (TA:TEVA) declined 1.56% or 370 points to end at 23290 and Osem (TA:OSEM) shed 0.27% or 22 points to 8230.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 224 to 115 and 117 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $60.75 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $67.57 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 1.80% or 21.50 to trade at $1213.90 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.69% to 3.8344, while EUR/ILS rose 0.56% to 4.3529.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.03% at 93.73.