Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Biomed and Communication sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 0.80%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Harel (TA:HARL), which rose 3.86% or 80 points to trade at 2150 at the close. Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT) added 2.98% or 790 points to end at 27270 and Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) was up 2.11% or 206 points to 9990 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ), which lost 3.64% or 19.5 points to trade at 515.5 in late trade. Poalim (TA:POLI) declined 2.90% or 73 points to end at 2444 and Israel Corp (TA:ILCO) shed 2.89% or 2060 points to 69100.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 267 to 131 and 14 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.40% or 0.19 to $48.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.64% or 0.33 to hit $52.20 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.25% or 3.28 to trade at $1294.28 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.12% to 3.6148, while EUR/ILS rose 0.35% to 4.2703.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 93.14.