Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Nova (TASE:NVMI), which rose 5.22% or 3,230.00 points to trade at 65,150.00 at the close. Camtek Ltd (TASE:CAMT) added 5.14% or 1,340.00 points to end at 27,400.00 and Ashtrom Group Ltd (TASE:ASHG) was up 3.63% or 223.00 points to 6,368.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG), which lost 5.61% or 289.00 points to trade at 4,859.00 in late trade. Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM) declined 3.11% or 540.00 points to end at 16,850.00 and Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TASE:PHOE) shed 2.64% or 123.00 points to 4,540.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 256 to 213 and 69 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.32% or 0.22 to $68.94 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.46% or 0.33 to hit $72.63 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 1.51 to trade at $2,663.29 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was unchanged 0.03% to 3.65, while EUR/ILS unchanged 0.01% to 3.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 106.15.