Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM), which rose 4.89% or 438 points to trade at 9400 at the close. Meanwhile, Maytronics (TASE:MTRN) added 4.51% or 290 points to end at 6720 and Nice Ltd (TASE:NICE) was up 1.86% or 1420 points to 77770 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK), which fell 3.22% or 40 points to trade at 1203 at the close. Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) declined 2.60% or 9.5 points to end at 356.5 and Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG) was down 2.12% or 75 points to 3464.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 256 to 211 and 32 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.04% or 0.03 to $73.11 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.20% or 0.15 to hit $75.34 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.25% or 4.50 to trade at $1778.90 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.20% to 3.2439, while EUR/ILS fell 0.15% to 3.8703.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 91.817.