Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Biomed and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 added 1.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 4.61% or 220 points to trade at 4990 at the close. Poalim (TA:POLI) added 3.95% or 91 points to end at 2396 and Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT) was up 2.54% or 730 points to 29500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Strauss Group (TA:STRS), which lost 1.41% or 102 points to trade at 7109 in late trade. Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL) declined 1.21% or 43 points to end at 3523 and Bazan Oil Refineries Ltd (TA:ORL) shed 1.04% or 1.8 points to 171.9.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 217 to 164 and 33 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.55% or 0.32 to $58.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.05% or 0.03 to hit $63.35 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.07% or 0.86 to trade at $1291.34 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.03% to 3.5122, while EUR/ILS rose 0.20% to 4.1589.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 93.10.