Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Communication and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TASE:TEVA), which rose 5.88% or 174 points to trade at 3132 at the close. Meanwhile, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) added 5.88% or 15.0 points to end at 270.0 and Harel (TASE:HARL) was up 2.03% or 56 points to 2816 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK), which fell 4.81% or 26 points to trade at 515 at the close. Delek Drilling LP (TASE:DEDRp) declined 2.76% or 25 points to end at 878 and Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG) was down 2.39% or 100.00 points to 4080.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 223 to 155 and 37 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 2.32% or 1.31 to $57.66 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.60% or 0.99 to hit $62.73 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.89% or 28.15 to trade at $1464.95 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.19% to 3.4938, while EUR/ILS rose 0.01% to 3.8589.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 98.000.