Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 gained 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 3.19% or 1910 points to trade at 61810 at the close. ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) added 3.08% or 46 points to end at 1539 and Teva (TA:TEVA) was up 2.31% or 320 points to 14190 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG), which lost 1.92% or 320 points to trade at 16320 in late trade. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) declined 1.01% or 46 points to end at 4514 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) shed 0.78% or 650 points to 82250.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 210 to 146 and 87 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.20% or 0.63 to $53.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.29% or 0.70 to hit $55.16 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.09% or 1.00 to trade at $1134.20 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.07% to 3.8212, while EUR/ILS rose 0.20% to 3.9967.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 102.91.