Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Partner (TA:PTNR), which rose 6.79% or 90 points to trade at 1416 at the close. Meanwhile, Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL) added 3.52% or 85 points to end at 2500 and Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) was up 1.77% or 163 points to 9380 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Azrieli Group Ltd (TA:AZRG), which fell 1.97% or 350 points to trade at 17380 at the close. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) declined 1.82% or 25 points to end at 1347 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) was down 1.82% or 1000 points to 53960.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 207 to 163 and 33 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.23% or 0.84 to $67.37 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.86% or 0.67 to hit $78.39 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.32% or 4.20 to trade at $1305.70 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.08% to 3.5668, while EUR/ILS rose 0.01% to 4.1642.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 94.03.