Israel stocks higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 0.66%

Israel stocks higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 0.66%

Mar 17, 2019

Israel stocks were higher after the close on Sunday, as gains in the Oil&Gas, Biomed and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 0.66%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Nice Ltd (TA:NICE), which rose 2.21% or 930 points to trade at 43030 at the close. Meanwhile, Gazit Globe Ltd (TA:GZT) added 2.04% or 56 points to end at 2801 and Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TA:PHOE1) was up 1.84% or 39 points to 2164 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Shufersal (TA:SAE), which fell 2.70% or 70 points to trade at 2520 at the close. Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) declined 1.53% or 92 points to end at 5939 and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) was down 1.07% or 64 points to 5940.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 280 to 110 and 50 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for May delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $58.82 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $67.04 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 7.15 to trade at $1302.25 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was up 0.06% to 3.5967, while EUR/ILS rose 0.07% to 4.0729.

The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 96.050.

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