Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Communication sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 1.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Leumi (TA:LUMI), which rose 0.63% or 15 points to trade at 2410 at the close. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) added 0.53% or 42 points to end at 7965 and Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT) was unchanged 0.00% or 0 points to 38230 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA), which lost 3.61% or 720 points to trade at 19200 in late trade. Fattal 1998 Holdings Ltd (TA:FATTAL) declined 3.47% or 1500.00 points to end at 41700.00 and Liveperson (TA:LPSN) shed 3.39% or 305 points to 8682.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 282 to 104 and 32 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.01% or 0.77 to $75.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.67% or 0.58 to hit $85.71 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.40% or 4.80 to trade at $1207.70 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.29% to 3.6348, while EUR/ILS rose 0.11% to 4.1887.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 95.31.