Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 rose 0.22%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 3.19% or 1910 points to trade at 61810 at the close. Meanwhile, ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) added 3.08% or 46 points to end at 1539 and Teva (TA:TEVA) was up 2.31% or 320 points to 14190 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG), which fell 1.92% or 320 points to trade at 16320 at the close. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) declined 1.01% or 46 points to end at 4514 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) was down 0.78% or 650 points to 82250.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 210 to 146 and 87 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.20% or 0.63 to $53.12 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.29% or 0.70 to hit $55.16 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.12% or 1.40 to trade at $1134.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.07% to 3.8212, while EUR/ILS rose 0.20% to 3.9967.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.15% at 102.89.