Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Communication sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 gained 0.74% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Fattal 1998 Holdings Ltd (TASE:FATTAL), which rose 9.84% or 2150 points to trade at 24000 at the close. Meanwhile, Delek Group (TASE:DLEKG) added 7.45% or 1110 points to end at 16000 and OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK) was up 5.72% or 42 points to 776 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bazan Oil Refineries Ltd (TASE:ORL), which fell 6.27% or 6.5 points to trade at 97.2 at the close. Israel Corp (TASE:ILCO) declined 3.31% or 1540 points to end at 45000 and Shufersal (TASE:SAE) was down 3.07% or 71 points to 2238.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 285 to 131 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 16.33% or 2.46 to $17.52 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 4.13% or 1.00 to hit $25.23 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 1.13% or 19.30 to trade at $1694.10 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.36% to 3.4859, while EUR/ILS rose 0.31% to 3.8157.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.57% at 99.078.