Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Biomed, Communication and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Israel Discount Bank Ltd (TA:DSCT), which rose 1.47% or 19.0 points to trade at 1315.0 at the close. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) added 1.22% or 66 points to end at 5459 and Israel Corp (TA:ILCO) was up 1.00% or 810 points to 81630 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ), which lost 5.20% or 13.0 points to trade at 236.9 in late trade. Liveperson (TA:LPSN) declined 4.35% or 470 points to end at 10330 and Harel (TA:HARL) shed 2.23% or 58 points to 2543.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 237 to 153 and 32 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.26% or 0.16 to $62.62 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.72% or 0.50 to hit $69.81 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.17% or 2.15 to trade at $1293.15 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.32% to 3.5877, while EUR/ILS fell 0.46% to 4.0251.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 96.898.