Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Biomed, Insurance and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 gained 0.99%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Delek Group (TA:DLEKG), which rose 4.91% or 2630 points to trade at 56230 at the close. Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) added 3.56% or 35 points to end at 1017 and Harel (TA:HARL) was up 2.85% or 70 points to 2529 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM), which lost 1.61% or 90 points to trade at 5510 in late trade. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) declined 1.23% or 72 points to end at 5793 and Amot Investments Ltd (TA:AMOT) shed 0.88% or 16 points to 1798.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 334 to 67 and 20 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.13% or 0.51 to $45.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 1.79% or 0.95 to hit $54.16 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1284.70 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.07% to 3.7339, while EUR/ILS fell 0.46% to 4.2662.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 95.700.