Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 0.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Azrieli Group Ltd (TASE:AZRG), which rose 3.32% or 700 points to trade at 21800 at the close. Delek Group (TASE:DLEKG) added 3.26% or 2040 points to end at 64540 and OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK) was up 3.11% or 23 points to 749 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM), which lost 1.88% or 110 points to trade at 5750 in late trade. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TASE:TEVA) declined 1.71% or 73 points to end at 4204 and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) shed 1.53% or 3.9 points to 250.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 268 to 126 and 26 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.99% or 1.89 to $61.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, 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 0.15% to 4.0312.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 97.907.