Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Biomed sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Elbit Systems Ltd (TA:ESLT), which rose 2.47% or 1250 points to trade at 51850 at the close. Sodastream International Ltd (TA:SODA) added 2.34% or 630.0 points to end at 27540.0 and Harel (TA:HARL) was up 2.25% or 57 points to 2585 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT), which lost 2.42% or 770 points to trade at 31020 in late trade. Amot Investments Ltd (TA:AMOT) declined 2.22% or 44 points to end at 1936 and Azrieli Group Ltd (TA:AZRG) shed 2.11% or 370 points to 17170.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 206 to 163 and 41 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.37% or 0.81 to $58.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 1.12% or 0.70 to hit $61.89 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.30% or 4.00 to trade at $1330.40 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.37% to 3.5336, while EUR/ILS rose 0.93% to 4.3667.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 89.58.