Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Banking and Insurance sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 1.06%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ), which rose 5.92% or 15.1 points to trade at 270.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TA:PHOE1) added 3.98% or 80 points to end at 2090 and Harel (TA:HARL) was up 2.71% or 68 points to 2578 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which fell 2.92% or 21 points to trade at 700 at the close. Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) declined 1.51% or 940 points to end at 61370 and Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) was down 0.89% or 9 points to 1006.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 241 to 139 and 38 ended unchanged.
Shares in OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) fell to all time lows; falling 2.92% or 21 to 700.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 1.41% or 0.86 to $61.90 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.65% or 1.16 to hit $71.39 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.45% or 5.85 to trade at $1295.95 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.02% to 3.5750, while EUR/ILS fell 0.10% to 4.0076.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 97.303.