Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Sunday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 added 0.53%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM), which rose 3.74% or 303 points to trade at 8408 at the close. Meanwhile, Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL) added 3.16% or 64 points to end at 2089 and Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) was up 2.17% or 410 points to 19340 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which fell 2.06% or 35 points to trade at 1668 at the close. Sodastream International Ltd (TA:SODA) declined 1.91% or 600.0 points to end at 30820.0 and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA) was down 1.71% or 150 points to 8600.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 198 to 170 and 46 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 5.66% or 3.71 to $69.25 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $75.32 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.05% or 0.60 to trade at $1271.10 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.46% to 3.6040, while EUR/ILS fell 0.01% to 4.2010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 94.19.