Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Isramco Negev 2 LP (TASE:ISRAp), which rose 1.85% or 1.3 points to trade at 71.4 at the close. Poalim (TASE:POLI) added 1.21% or 33 points to end at 2755 and Perrigo (TASE:PRGO) was up 0.88% or 160 points to 18240 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK), which lost 3.12% or 26 points to trade at 813 in late trade. Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) declined 2.52% or 6.5 points to end at 251.0 and Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TASE:PHOE1) shed 1.91% or 42 points to 2161.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 283 to 104 and 24 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.57% or 0.33 to $57.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.48% or 0.31 to hit $64.54 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.25% or 3.45 to trade at $1396.65 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.08% to 3.5710, while EUR/ILS fell 0.16% to 4.0042.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 96.963.