Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Insurance, Financials and Biomed sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.80%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT), which rose 1.40% or 420 points to trade at 30520 at the close. Meanwhile, Nice Ltd (TA:NICE) added 1.10% or 340 points to end at 31180 and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ) was up 0.43% or 2.3 points to 531.3 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Harel (TA:HARL), which fell 3.16% or 80 points to trade at 2449 at the close. Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) declined 2.58% or 1460 points to end at 55190 and Perrigo (TA:PRGO) was down 2.52% or 750 points to 29030.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 303 to 84 and 21 ended unchanged.
Shares in Nice Ltd (TA:NICE) rose to all time highs; up 1.10% or 340 to 31180.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.61% or 0.93 to $56.69 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.34% or 0.84 to hit $62.02 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.13% or 1.60 to trade at $1266.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.27% to 3.5140, while EUR/ILS fell 0.01% to 4.1443.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.52.