Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 added 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were Frutarom (TA:FRUT), which rose 3.53% or 530 points to trade at 15540 at the close. Meanwhile, Isramco L (TA:ISRAp) added 2.53% or 1.9 points to end at 76.9 and Nice (TA:NICE) was up 2.52% or 600 points to 24420 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Perrigo (TA:PRGO), which rose 0.09% or 60 points to trade at 68900 at the close. Elbit Systems (TA:ESLT) added 0.20% or 60 points to end at 29520 and Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) was up 0.21% or 30 points to 14300.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 217 to 117 and 119 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.40% or 1.24 to $52.89 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 3.13% or 1.78 to hit $58.84 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.09% or 1.00 to trade at $1162.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.08% to 3.7872, while EUR/ILS fell 0.37% to 4.1836.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 96.61.