Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Insurance and Biomed sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 0.38%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 4.01% or 430 points to trade at 11160 at the close. Meanwhile, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ) added 3.01% or 18.8 points to end at 643.0 and Perrigo (TA:PRGO) was up 2.24% or 570 points to 26050 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Delek Group (TA:DLEKG), which fell 3.20% or 2520 points to trade at 76230 at the close. Big Shopping Centers Ltd (TA:BIG) declined 3.15% or 830 points to end at 25550 and Azrieli Group Ltd (TA:AZRG) was down 2.89% or 560 points to 18850.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 303 to 95 and 102 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.47% or 0.21 to $44.52 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.21% or 0.10 to hit $46.90 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.42% or 18.14 to trade at $1257.76 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.23% to 3.5299, while EUR/ILS fell 0.41% to 3.9348.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.55% at 97.44.