Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Insurance, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 5.80% or 336 points to trade at 6131 at the close. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) added 3.81% or 44 points to end at 1198 and Elbit Systems Ltd (TA:ESLT) was up 1.45% or 620 points to 43340 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM), which lost 4.10% or 225 points to trade at 5258 in late trade. Harel (TA:HARL) declined 3.94% or 95 points to end at 2315 and Nice Ltd (TA:NICE) shed 3.66% or 1480 points to 38920.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 253 to 131 and 23 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 1.10% or 0.51 to $46.03 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.29% or 0.16 to hit $54.75 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.58% or 7.40 to trade at $1291.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.67% to 3.7274, while EUR/ILS fell 0.23% to 4.2465.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.51% at 95.928.