Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Insurance, Technology and Biomed sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 fell 0.82%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were First International Bank of Israel (TA:FTIN), which rose 5.95% or 267 points to trade at 4754 at the close. Meanwhile, Discount (TA:DSCT) added 5.42% or 33.7 points to end at 655.6 and Mizrahi Tefahot (TA:MZTF) was up 3.15% or 137 points to 4488 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Perrigo (TA:PRGO), which fell 5.52% or 2240 points to trade at 38330 at the close. Israel Corp (TA:ILCO) declined 2.60% or 1700 points to end at 63750 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) was down 2.54% or 39 points to 1497.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 207 to 109 and 122 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 3.35% or 1.61 to $46.40 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 3.12% or 1.53 to hit $47.44 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 2.11% or 27.20 to trade at $1315.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.65% to 3.8816, while EUR/ILS fell 0.33% to 4.3280.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.76% at 95.39.