Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Sunday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Biomed and Insurance sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 1.25% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Nice Ltd (TA:NICE), which rose 1.29% or 390 points to trade at 30620 at the close. Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM) added 0.82% or 90 points to end at 11090 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) was up 0.58% or 8 points to 1393 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which lost 5.29% or 76 points to trade at 1362 in late trade. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) declined 3.88% or 260 points to end at 6440 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) shed 3.04% or 1600 points to 51100.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 251 to 128 and 28 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 3.42% or 2.09 to $59.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 3.38% or 2.19 to hit $62.62 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.07% or 0.90 to trade at $1318.10 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.06% to 3.5201, while EUR/ILS rose 0.02% to 4.3094.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 90.22.