Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Sunday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA), which rose 1.30% or 290 points to trade at 22640 at the close. Meanwhile, Elbit Systems Ltd (TASE:ESLT) added 1.18% or 630 points to end at 53990 and Paz Oil (TASE:PZOL) was up 1.06% or 530 points to 50630 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Delek Drilling LP (TASE:DEDRp), which fell 3.17% or 32 points to trade at 994 at the close. Delek Group (TASE:DLEKG) declined 2.84% or 1740 points to end at 59500 and Melisron (TASE:MLSR) was down 2.15% or 400 points to 18210.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 208 to 167 and 39 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.68% or 0.39 to $57.73 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.85% or 1.17 to hit $64.47 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.36% or 19.30 to trade at $1401.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.42% to 3.5757, while EUR/ILS fell 0.11% to 4.0137.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.52% at 96.835.