Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Insurance, Real Estate and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 added 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 1.27% or 850 points to trade at 67580 at the close. Teva (TA:TEVA) added 1.20% or 240 points to end at 20170 and Leumi (TA:LUMI) was up 0.85% or 12 points to 1427 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Strauss Group (TA:STRS), which lost 1.93% or 120 points to trade at 6090 in late trade. Frutarom (TA:FRUT) declined 1.58% or 320 points to end at 19920 and OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) shed 1.05% or 39 points to 3680.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 185 to 167 and 94 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.55% or 1.25 to $47.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.46% or 1.25 to hit $49.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.26% or 3.55 to trade at $1342.65 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.43% to 3.7756, while EUR/ILS rose 0.15% to 4.2777.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.02% at 94.46.