Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Insurance, Communication and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 2.33% or 156 points to trade at 6850 at the close. Sodastream International Ltd (TA:SODA) added 2.14% or 690.0 points to end at 32990.0 and Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) was up 1.74% or 149 points to 8720 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA), which lost 6.01% or 1290 points to trade at 20170 in late trade. Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT) declined 3.66% or 1300 points to end at 34200 and Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL) shed 3.22% or 83 points to 2495.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 250 to 137 and 26 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 1.50% or 1.06 to $69.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.19% or 0.91 to hit $75.26 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.40% or 5.20 to trade at $1308.90 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.02% to 3.6075, while EUR/ILS fell 0.51% to 4.2782.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 92.99.