Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.34%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG), which rose 2.98% or 100 points to trade at 3459 at the close. Meanwhile, Liveperson (TASE:LPSN) added 1.41% or 280 points to end at 20140 and Airport City Ltd (TASE:ARPT) was up 1.14% or 61 points to 5422 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ), which fell 1.71% or 6.0 points to trade at 345.0 at the close. Leumi (TASE:LUMI) declined 1.53% or 39 points to end at 2505 and Bank Hapoalim (TASE:POLI) was down 1.34% or 36 points to 2659.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 271 to 193 and 38 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.53% or 1.90 to $73.26 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 3.54% or 2.73 to hit $74.43 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.49% or 8.75 to trade at $1792.05 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.44% to 3.2759, while EUR/ILS rose 0.05% to 3.8704.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 92.612.