Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 declined 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Elbit Systems (TA:ESLT), which rose 3.64% or 1300 points to trade at 37050 at the close. Frutarom (TA:FRUT) added 3.06% or 590 points to end at 19890 and Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG) was up 2.69% or 400 points to 15280 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which lost 3.60% or 2390 points to trade at 64070 in late trade. Leumi (TA:LUMI) declined 1.83% or 25 points to end at 1344 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) shed 1.81% or 30 points to 1625.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 188 to 147 and 117 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 3.23% or 1.34 to $40.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.66% or 1.11 to hit $40.68 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 2.03% or 25.30 to trade at $1223.30 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.11% to 3.8364, while EUR/ILS fell 0.46% to 4.2877.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.47% at 96.12.