Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Sunday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA), which rose 1.30% or 290 points to trade at 22640 at the close. Elbit Systems Ltd (TASE:ESLT) added 1.18% or 630 points to end at 53990 and Paz Oil (TASE:PZOL) was up 1.06% or 530 points to 50630 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Delek Drilling LP (TASE:DEDRp), which lost 3.17% or 32 points to trade at 994 in late trade. Delek Group (TASE:DLEKG) declined 2.84% or 1740 points to end at 59500 and Melisron (TASE:MLSR) shed 2.15% or 400 points to 18210.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 208 to 167 and 39 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.68% or 0.39 to $57.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.85% or 1.17 to hit $64.47 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.36% or 19.30 to trade at $1401.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.42% to 3.5757, while EUR/ILS fell 0.11% to 4.0137.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.52% at 96.835.