Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Biomed sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Poalim (TA:POLI), which rose 4.01% or 106 points to trade at 2751 at the close. Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TA:PHOE1) added 2.63% or 54 points to end at 2104 and Perrigo (TA:PRGO) was up 1.76% or 300 points to 17330 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which lost 3.27% or 2830 points to trade at 83800 in late trade. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) declined 2.06% or 18 points to end at 837 and Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) shed 1.75% or 19 points to 1069.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 223 to 157 and 47 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 1.30% or 0.83 to $63.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.69% or 0.50 to hit $71.56 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.28% or 3.65 to trade at $1282.05 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.35% to 3.5861, while EUR/ILS fell 0.09% to 4.0319.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 97.042.