Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Sunday, as gains in the Insurance, Technology and Biomed sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 added 1.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 4.88% or 174 points to trade at 3740 at the close. Nice (TA:NICE) added 3.72% or 790 points to end at 22000 and Teva (TA:TEVA) was up 3.14% or 710 points to 23340 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Isramco L (TA:ISRAp), which lost 1.30% or 0.9 points to trade at 68.4 in late trade. Osem (TA:OSEM) declined 1.21% or 91 points to end at 7412 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) shed 0.96% or 21 points to 2159.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 208 to 100 and 135 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.89% or 0.88 to $47.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.50% or 0.74 to hit $50.48 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.90% or 10.70 to trade at $1176.80 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.56% to 3.8352, while EUR/ILS rose 0.17% to 4.3522.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.33% at 94.76.