Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.59%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT), which rose 3.94% or 1310 points to trade at 34550 at the close. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) added 3.46% or 220 points to end at 6570 and Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) was up 1.74% or 162 points to 9467 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL), which lost 4.90% or 127 points to trade at 2465 in late trade. Partner (TA:PTNR) declined 4.38% or 68 points to end at 1486 and Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) shed 3.36% or 34 points to 979.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 269 to 115 and 20 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.26% or 0.18 to $68.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.65% or 0.48 to hit $74.27 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.66% or 8.80 to trade at $1314.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.26% to 3.5974, while EUR/ILS fell 0.16% to 4.3458.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 91.62.