Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Insurance, Financials and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 declined 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 25 were Delek Group (TA:DLEKG), which rose 3.42% or 3900 points to trade at 117900 at the close. Meanwhile, Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) added 2.50% or 43 points to end at 1766 and Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) was up 1.44% or 210 points to 14760 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nice (TA:NICE), which fell 4.26% or 1090 points to trade at 24510 at the close. Israel Corp (TA:ILCO) declined 3.72% or 5400 points to end at 139600 and Discount (TA:DSCT) was down 2.12% or 15.0 points to 694.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 179 to 158 and 118 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.10% or 0.06 to $59.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.48% or 0.32 to hit $65.69 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.11% or 1.30 to trade at $1206.20 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.45% to 3.8701, while EUR/ILS fell 0.79% to 4.2473.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.26% at 96.50.