Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking, Biomed and Financials 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 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 4.61% or 220 points to trade at 4990 at the close. Meanwhile, Poalim (TA:POLI) added 3.95% or 91 points to end at 2396 and Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT) was up 2.54% or 730 points to 29500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Strauss Group (TA:STRS), which fell 1.41% or 102 points to trade at 7109 at the close. Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL) declined 1.21% or 43 points to end at 3523 and Bazan Oil Refineries Ltd (TA:ORL) was down 1.04% or 1.8 points to 171.9.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 217 to 164 and 33 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.55% or 0.32 to $58.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $63.36 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.07% or 0.85 to trade at $1291.35 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.03% to 3.5122, while EUR/ILS rose 0.20% to 4.1589.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 93.10.