Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Insurance, Oil & Gas and Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.85%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which rose 5.80% or 336 points to trade at 6131 at the close. Meanwhile, OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) added 3.81% or 44 points to end at 1198 and Elbit Systems Ltd (TA:ESLT) was up 1.45% or 620 points to 43340 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TA:TSEM), which fell 4.10% or 225 points to trade at 5258 at the close. Harel (TA:HARL) declined 3.94% or 95 points to end at 2315 and Nice Ltd (TA:NICE) was down 3.66% or 1480 points to 38920.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 253 to 131 and 23 ended unchanged.
Shares in Harel (TA:HARL) fell to 52-week lows; down 3.94% or 95 to 2315.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 1.03% or 0.48 to $46.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.29% or 0.16 to hit $54.75 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.58% or 7.40 to trade at $1291.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.67% to 3.7272, while EUR/ILS fell 0.23% to 4.2462.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 95.915.