Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Biomed sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 gained 1.24%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 7.15% or 393 points to trade at 5890 at the close. Meanwhile, Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG) added 4.47% or 720 points to end at 16820 and Avner L (TA:AVNRp) was up 3.17% or 9.4 points to 305.9 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Migdal Insurance (TA:MGDL), which fell 2.16% or 10.2 points to trade at 461.5 at the close. Teva (TA:TEVA) declined 1.56% or 370 points to end at 23290 and Osem (TA:OSEM) was down 0.27% or 22 points to 8230.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 224 to 115 and 117 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.02% or 0.01 to $60.74 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $67.57 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 1.81% or 21.60 to trade at $1214.00 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.69% to 3.8344, while EUR/ILS rose 0.56% to 4.3529.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.03% at 93.72.