Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Communication sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.41%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM), which rose 2.18% or 260 points to trade at 12160 at the close. Meanwhile, Sodastream International Ltd (TA:SODA) added 1.90% or 460.0 points to end at 24660.0 and Airport City Ltd (TA:ARPT) was up 1.15% or 50 points to 4380 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Frutarom Industries Ltd (TA:FRUT), which fell 2.36% or 760 points to trade at 31440 at the close. Nice Ltd (TA:NICE) declined 1.49% or 480 points to end at 31650 and Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) was down 1.38% or 14 points to 986.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 200 to 199 and 31 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.64% or 0.99 to $61.36 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 1.35% or 0.90 to hit $67.47 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.14% or 1.90 to trade at $1318.00 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.07% to 3.4525, while EUR/ILS fell 0.38% to 4.1504.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 91.84.