Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 lost 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 2.09% or 86 points to trade at 4202 at the close. Gazit Globe (TA:GZT) added 1.91% or 70 points to end at 3740 and Discount (TA:DSCT) was up 1.17% or 8.0 points to 691.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which lost 1.83% or 1170 points to trade at 62650 in late trade. Teva (TA:TEVA) declined 1.72% or 330 points to end at 18810 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) shed 1.71% or 1350 points to 77750.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 193 to 154 and 100 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 3.55% or 1.63 to $44.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 3.44% or 1.65 to hit $46.28 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.04% or 13.95 to trade at $1330.15 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.07% to 3.7520, while EUR/ILS fell 0.43% to 4.2011.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.36% at 95.55.