Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 1.54%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA), which rose 4.46% or 980 points to trade at 22960 at the close. Meanwhile, Nova (TASE:NVMI) added 4.24% or 1280 points to end at 31500 and Liveperson (TASE:LPSN) was up 3.82% or 750 points to 20390 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Perrigo (TASE:PRGO), which fell 0.46% or 70 points to trade at 15070 at the close. Harel (TASE:HARL) added 0.13% or 4 points to end at 3101 and Phoenix Holdings Ltd (TASE:PHOE1) was up 0.17% or 5 points to 2955.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 372 to 108 and 19 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was up 4.58% or 3.08 to $70.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 4.07% or 2.82 to hit $72.17 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.38% or 6.95 to trade at $1804.45 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.40% to 3.2767, while EUR/ILS fell 0.28% to 3.8643.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 92.810.