Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Communication sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT), which rose 2.66% or 900 points to trade at 34700 at the close. Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) added 2.57% or 500 points to end at 19940 and OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) was up 1.54% or 18 points to 1184 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ), which lost 3.65% or 18.5 points to trade at 489.0 in late trade. Azrieli Group Ltd (TA:AZRG) declined 2.52% or 430 points to end at 16620 and Partner (TA:PTNR) shed 2.02% or 36 points to 1747.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 194 to 192 and 35 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.47% or 1.57 to $65.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 2.64% or 1.78 to hit $69.20 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.98% or 12.90 to trade at $1324.80 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.37% to 3.4925, while EUR/ILS rose 0.58% to 4.2843.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 89.77.