Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Insurance, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 0.56%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Strauss Group (TA:STRS), which rose 5.10% or 369 points to trade at 7599 at the close. Meanwhile, Leumi (TA:LUMI) added 1.06% or 24 points to end at 2294 and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TA:BEZQ) was up 0.93% or 3.9 points to 423.8 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cellcom Israel Ltd (TA:CEL), which fell 3.04% or 76 points to trade at 2427 at the close. Delek Drilling LP (TA:DEDRp) declined 2.62% or 28 points to end at 1041 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) was down 2.41% or 1390 points to 56340.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 272 to 109 and 21 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.78% or 0.56 to $71.64 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.83% or 0.66 to hit $78.91 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 1.00 to trade at $1291.00 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.33% to 3.5740, while EUR/ILS fell 0.28% to 4.1842.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 93.88.