Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Biomed sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 added 0.10%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were Teva (TA:TEVA), which rose 4.40% or 1060 points to trade at 25160 at the close. Meanwhile, Discount (TA:DSCT) added 1.51% or 11.4 points to end at 768.5 and Frutarom (TA:FRUT) was up 1.50% or 230 points to 15530 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which fell 4.12% or 169 points to trade at 3930 at the close. Strauss Group (TA:STRS) declined 2.62% or 144 points to end at 5356 and Gazit Globe (TA:GZT) was down 1.98% or 83 points to 4102.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 181 to 147 and 122 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 3.92% or 1.75 to $46.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 3.65% or 1.75 to hit $49.49 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 1.50% or 16.50 to trade at $1119.10 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.61% to 3.8588, while EUR/ILS fell 0.40% to 4.3579.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.36% at 95.42.